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Upgraded Space Debris Evolutionary Model for the Geosynchronous Earth Orbit

Yuya Ariyoshi, Toshiya Hanada

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Space debris environment evolutionary model for the geosynchronous Earth orbit region, GEODEEM, developed by Kyushu University was upgraded for better understanding. This paper explain the key features of this upgraded model. One of keys of this upgrade is that all satellites larger than 10 cm in size are tracked individually. The benefits of this upgrade are: 1) collision accidents can be estimated based upon one-by-one collision probabilities, and 2) more realistic scenarios like removing certain objects from orbits can be applied. This paper also present the latest prediction of future space debris environment from 2008 to 2108. The model indicates that explosion is the main debris production mode in next 100 years.

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Space debris environment evolutionary model for the geosynchronous Earth orbit region, GEODEEM, developed by Kyushu University was upgraded for better understanding. This paper explain the key features of this upgraded model. One of keys of this upgrade is that all satellites larger than 10 cm in size are tracked individually. The benefits of this upgrade are: 1) collision accidents can be estimated based upon one-by-one collision probabilities, and 2) more realistic scenarios like removing certain objects from orbits can be applied. This paper also present the latest prediction of future space debris environment from 2008 to 2108. The model indicates that explosion is the main debris production mode in next 100 years.

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Space debris environment evolutionary model for the geosynchronous Earth orbit region, GEODEEM, developed by Kyushu University was upgraded for better understanding. This paper explain the key features of this upgraded model. One of keys of this upgrade is that all satellites larger than 10 cm in size are tracked individually. The benefits of this upgrade are: 1) collision accidents can be estimated based upon one-by-one collision probabilities, and 2) more realistic scenarios like removing certain objects from orbits can be applied. This paper also present the latest prediction of future space debris environment from 2008 to 2108. The model indicates that explosion is the main debris production mode in next 100 years.

Key concepts: Geosynchronous orbit, Space debris, Upgrade, Debris, Aerospace engineering, Orbit (dynamics), Collision, Geocentric orbit

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