FRIPON - Status of radio and optical network
Abstract
We present the evolution of FRIPON from its funding in 2015. As many projects, full operation mode took more time than planned, but we are now ready to detect any bright fireball over France and compute accurate orbits, trajectories, and, if we are lucky, strewn fields. Most of our delay was due to the installation of this huge network including 100 all-sky cameras and 20 radio receivers, but also to underestimating the complexity of the network itself. FRIPON is working now, and, furthermore, it is now easy to extend to Europe and to any country, as all our work will be released. Italy and northern Europe are currently installing FRIPON stations. With the GRAVES radar data, we are able to get an accuracy of a few tens of meters per second.
- Publication:
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International Meteor Conference, Petnica, Serbia
- Pub Date:
- January 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018pimo.conf..165C