Establishing the capabilities of the Murchison Widefield Array as a passive radar for the surveillance of space

B Hennessy, M Rutten, R Young, S Tingay… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper describes the use of the Murchison Widefield Array, a low-frequency radio
telescope at a radio-quiet Western Australian site, as a radar receiver forming part of a …

[HTML][HTML] Demonstration of orbit determination for LEO objects using the Murchison Widefield Array

S Prabu, P Hancock, X Zhang, SJ Tingay - Advances in Space Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The rapidly increasing number of satellites in Earth's orbit motivates the development of
Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capabilities using wide field-of-view sensor systems that …

Experimental verification of passive radar space object detection with a single low‐frequency array radio telescope

K Jędrzejewski, M Malanowski, K Kulpa… - IET Radar, Sonar & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The paper focuses on the results of experimental research on the possibility of passive
space object detection using a single radio telescope from the European Low‐Frequency …

Deployable long range passive radar for space surveillance

B Hennessy, D Gustainis, N Misaghi… - 2022 IEEE Radar …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A deployable long-range passive radar system has been used to observe satellites in low
Earth orbit utilising distant transmitters in real time. This paper details the experimental …

A survey of spatially and temporally resolved radio frequency interference in the FM band at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory

SJ Tingay, M Sokolowski, R Wayth… - Publications of the …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We present the first survey of radio frequency interference (RFI) at the future site of the low
frequency Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory …

Micro-Doppler Signature Analysis for Space Domain Awareness using VHF radar

E Heading, ST Nguyen, D Holdsworth, IM Reid - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
The large quantity of resident space objects orbiting Earth poses a threat to safety and
efficient operations in space. Radar sensors are well suited to detecting objects in space …

Uncued detection and initial orbit determination from short observations with the Murchison Widefield array

B Hennessy, S Tingay, R Young… - IEEE Aerospace and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article details the latest developments in the use of the Murchison Widefield Array as a
passive radar receiver for the surveillance of space. We cover methods developed to …

Experimental trials of space object detection using LOFAR radio telescope as a receiver in passive radar

K Jędrzejewski, K Kulpa, M Malanowski… - 2022 IEEE Radar …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper presents the results of the first measurements devoted to the experimental
verification of the capability of space object detection by passive radar system using …

Passive radar based on LOFAR radio telescope for air and space target detection

M Malanowski, K Jędrzejewski… - 2021 IEEE Radar …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
this paper presents the concept of using the low-frequency array (LOFAR) radio telescope
receiver for passive detection of air and space targets using illuminators of opportunity. The …

Improved techniques for the surveillance of the near earth space environment with the Murchison Widefield Array

B Hennessy, S Tingay, P Hancock… - 2019 IEEE radar …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we demonstrate improved techniques to extend coherent processing intervals
for passive radar processing, with the Murchison Widefield Array. Specifically, we apply a …