Chinese Space Science and Technology
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Liu Yaying (Purple Mountain Observatory,Academia Sinica,Nanjing 210008)
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Abstract: In this pepar have analysed and studied the variation of the debris population in low Earth orbit with the solar radiation flux F 10 7 .A calculation method to predict the long periodic variation of solar flux F 10 7 and a mathematics model to predict space debris population have been derived.The results show that:①The strong solar activity significantly accelerated the decay of satellites and debris in low Earth orbit.As a result,the yearly mean growth rates of the debris population decline;②The variation of the space debris population relates with ll year variation of the solar activity.The correlation coefficient reaches 0 9 during the 21th and 22st solar activity cycles from 1974 to 1994;③The space debris population increases with the launch rate.The debris having sizes of 10 cm or larger increase at about double the rate of growth of the cumulative launches; ④By 2020 the population of tracked objects(>10 cm in diameter)will reach 14500 when launch rates are fairly constant,being 114.264;⑤If untracked debris(1~10 cm in diameter)population will increase at about double the rate of growth of the trackable population,the space debris population will reaches 125000 by the year 2020.
Liu Yaying (Purple Mountain Observatory,Academia Sinica,Nanjing 210008). SPACE DEBRIS NATURAL DECAY AND SOLAR ACTIVITY[J]. Chinese Space Science and Technology.
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