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 …

Improved sensitivity for space domain awareness observations with the murchison widefield array

S Prabu, P Hancock, X Zhang, SJ Tingay… - Advances in Space …, 2022 - Elsevier
Our previously reported survey of the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) environment using the
Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) detected over 70 unique Resident Space Objects (RSOs) …

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 …

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 …

Satellite orbit refinement based on passive bistatic radar measurements

M Malanowski, K Jędrzejewski… - 2023 IEEE Radar …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper presents the concept and its empirical validation of the use of passive bistatic
radar based on the LOFAR radio telescope and commercial digital radio DAB+ illuminator …

First experimental trials of passive DVB-T based space object detection with a single LOFAR radio telescope

K Jędrzejewski, M Malanowski, K Kulpa, M Pożoga - 2022 - IET
The paper presents the results of the first experimental trials of space object detection using
one of the LOFAR radio telescopes and the digital television (DVB-T) transmitter as the …