PRELIMINARY SIMULATION FOR LIGHT CURVES OF ROCKET BODY IN LEO

摘要

Orbital debris has become an inevitable problem for the future space exploration,and spacecraft is suggested to remove orbital debris. To fulfill this mission,you need to know target's attitude motion when installing a mitigation-relateddevice. To support, we developed a simulator of orbit, attitude, and lightcurve to see how an object behaves. This paper presents a process to simulatevirtual rocket body's observation in LEO assuming an existing telescope inKyushu University, and to estimate the triaxial ratio, the spin axis, and theshape model. The real observation is supposed to be held in the near future.