Technique for de-orbiting small debris from the near-earth space environment
NRL
System and method for inducing rapid reentry of orbital debris including determining a spatial extent of the orbital debris, and deploying dust to the orbital debris to enhance the drag on the orbital debris.
Inventors:
Ganguli, Gurudas; Chappie, Scott S.; Roudakov, Leonid I.; Crabtree, Christopher E.
Patent Number:
Technical domain:
Handling and Transportation
FIle Date:
2011-01-31
Grant Date:
2013-06-25
Grant time:
876 days
Grant time percentile rank:
16
Claim count percentile rank:
5
Citations percentile rank:
1
'Cited by' percentile rank:
1
Assignee:
US NAVY
