Open AccessSpace debris flux on LAPAN satellites during Solar Cycle 25
Author(s) -
Abdul Rachman
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2214/1/012020
Subject(s) - space debris , debris , hypervelocity , satellite , flux (metallurgy) , orbit (dynamics) , environmental science , solar cycle 22 , daytime , low earth orbit , population , solar cycle , physics , altitude (triangle) , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , aerospace engineering , astronomy , materials science , engineering , mathematics , demography , geometry , quantum mechanics , sociology , magnetic field , solar wind , metallurgy
Solar activity has been known to have impacts on the altitude of low Earth orbit satellites and space debris as well. Consequently, this will affect the flux of debris population around a satellite’s orbit. LAPAN currently has three satellites in low Earth orbit which will still be in operation during Solar Cycle 25 which began in December 2019 and is expected to reach the peak in 2025. It is widely known that even a very small debris can give detrimental effects to those satellites due to their hypervelocity speed. In the present study we report the space debris flux on LAPAN-TUBSAT, LAPAN A2, and LAPAN A3 satellites during the solar cycle. The flux is generated using ORDEM 3.1 released by NASA.