ISON search and study of near-Earth space objects
Abstract
International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) is the open international voluntary project on self-financing basis specializing in observation of the near-Earth space objects. Observatories collaborating with ISON provide global coverage and successfully combined the observations of space debris with observations of asteroids. The network works already 14 years and includes more than 50 telescopes of 27 observatories in 17 countries. From one side ISON provides permanent monitoring of the whole GEO region and tracking of objects at GEO, GTO, HEO and LEO. KIAM supervises this space debris research, maintain database of space objects, develops the space debris population model, and provides conjunction analysis for satellites at high orbits. From other side, KIAM and IAKhNU develop the technology of asteroid survey with small telescopes and provide photometry observations of the near-Earth asteroids to investigate YORP effect, to search new binary NEAs, and to support the radar experiments.
- Publication:
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1st NEO and Debris Detection Conference_ESA2019
- Pub Date:
- January 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019fndd.confE..22M