Southern Cross Outback Observatories Project
Innovation in space debris detection and mitigation
Southern Cross Outreach Observatory Project
Southern Cross Outback Observatories Project
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Our Vision
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Space is getting congested. And with it comes an inherent problem of space debris, putting at risk the orbital space infrastructure the very fabric of our modern society is reliant upon. Uncontrolled, undetected, uncatalogued, and travelling at several kilometers per second, the 1-10 cm sized space debris in the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) numbers over a million and threatens the largest proportion of our orbital asset. And this threat is not going away any time soon unless a serious effort is made to develop newer technologies of detection and cataloguing at the highest level of precision enabling ground-based or orbital Active Debris Removal (ADR) at a massive scale. We believe a synchronized network of mobile observatories deployed over a vast area such as the Australian outback will be able to detect the faintest of the debris in LEO through a concerted sequence of detecting, tracing and tracking to achieve hyper-precision in the Two Line Elements of the debris enabling their removal from the orbit. Our patent-pending Trace, Track and Tackle sequence is a modern solution for the space debris problem which will be swift, cost-effective and reliable method of the removal of space debris at a massive scale.
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Team
Meet the rockstar team of SCOOP
