A. V. Avdeev, A. S. Bashkin, B. I. Katorgin, M. V. Parfen'ev, “About possibilities of clearing near-Earth space from dangerous debris by a spaceborne laser system with an autonomous cw chemical HF laser”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 2011, Volume 41, Number 7,Pages <nobr>669

This article is cited in 15 papers

Laser applications

About possibilities of clearing near-Earth space from dangerous debris by a spaceborne laser system with an autonomous cw chemical HF laser

A. V. Avdeev^a, A. S. Bashkin^a, B. I. Katorgin^b, M. V. Parfen'ev^b

^a Moscow Aviation Institute
^b NPO Energomash, Khimki, Moscow region

Abstract: The possibility of clearing hazardous near-Earth space debris using a spaceborne laser station with a large autonomous cw chemical HF laser is substantiated and the requirements to its characteristics (i.e., power and divergence of laser radiation, pulse duration in the repetitively pulsed regime, repetition rate and total time of laser action on space debris, necessary to remove them from the orbits of the protected spacecrafts) are determined. The possibility of launching the proposed spaceborne laser station to the orbit with the help of a "Proton-M" carrier rocket is considered.

PACS: 07.87.+v, 42.55.Ks

Received: 13.01.2011
Revised: 05.06.2011