Navigation Methods for Space Fairing Vehicle

i doubt IEEE has any material directly on the subject but they might have stuff on hardened electronic systems, or maybe not, after all they are mostly concerned with more mundane civilian engineering standards.

if i've understood the reversal problem correctly the main problem for electronics would be the hypothesized (huge) electric storms. i think the main method of protection is meant to be some sort of faraday cage

the reversal problem is still a bit "out there" but having backup systems with different kinds of fail points is always smart anyways

Reading the article "Satellite Collision Avoidance Methods Questioned After Space Crash" ( www.space.com/news/090227-space-collisi ... tions.html ) I suppose that the navigation of satellites and space vehicles could and should be improved.

The article reports that

What about enabling all space vehicles, stations etc. to detect debris via near-distance-radar? The vehicles etc. are much closer to it and thus can detect much more precisely and much earlier, if there is a reason to move itself. This might save propellant perhaps because the danger is detected earlier and the distance to move can be determined more exactly.



This might assist the idea I told about above but it also makes me think of a SETI@home-approach. A lot of data might have to be processed given the amount of debris circling around Earth. All vehicles etc. should be given all the actual data about orbits, size, mass and shape of the debris as well as vehicles. This might be too much for onboard-computers as well as for agencies. SETI@home might improve the situation.



What about it as well as about what can be rwad in the article?



Dipl.-Volkswirt (bdvb) Augustin (Political Economist)