Debris Analysis Workstation Version 0.1 User's Guide.

Abstract

The Debris Analysis Workstation (DAW) Version 0.1 is an ensemble of spacecraft breakup, trajectory propagation, and data visualization models cohesively integrated into a single user-friendly analysis environment designed for operation on a SUN workstation. DAW was developed by the Aerospace Corporation for the Air Force Phillips Laboratory Space Debris Research Program. Equipped with a graphical user interface and easy-to-use data presentation graphics, analysts can use DAW to model a variety of scenarios involving the fragmentation of a target object resulting from either a self-explosion or a collision with another object. The user initiates a desired breakup study by inputting such information as the type of breakup event, the position and velocities of object(s) involved in the event, and the object(s) material and structural characteristics. The study can then be run in DAW 0.1 to obtain a variety of information on the breakup. This information can include initial distributions of fragments generated in the event, the subsequent evolution of the fragment cloud(s), and the reentry footprint of individual fragments at some specified altitude(s) or those impacting the ground.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA325518

Entities

People

  • Kenneth W. Yates

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Altitude
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Collisions
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Corporations
  • Databases
  • Debris
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Grids
  • Materials
  • Operating Systems
  • Payload
  • Space Debris
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • ballistics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris