International experiments on development of VLBI radar method for research of near-earth bodies

1Molotov, IE, 2Volvach, AE, 3Konovalenko, AA, 3Falkovich, IS, 3Lytvynenko, LM, 4Negoda, AA, 5Fedorov, OP, 6Lipatov, BN, 7Gorshenkov, Yu.N, 8Agapov, VM, 9Tuccari, G, 10Liu, X
1Main Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
2Laboratory of Radio Astronomy, SRI Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Katsiveli, AR Crimea, Ukraine
3Institute of Radio Astronomy of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
4State Space Agency of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
5Space Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
6Scientific-Research Institute of Radio Astronomy, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
7Special Design Bureau of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russia
8Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian AS, Moscow, Russia
9Institute for Radio Astronomy, Noto, Italy
10Astronomical Observatory, Urumqi, China
Kosm. nauka tehnol. 2004, 10 ;(2-3):087-092
https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2004.02.087
Publication Language: Russian
Abstract: 
Six VLBI radar experiments on the research of Earth group planets, near-Earth asteroids and space debris objects were performed during 1999-2003 with the help of the Evpatoria RT-70 planetary radar (Ukraine) and with the participation of the receiving antennas Bear Lakes RT-64 (Russia), Noto RT-32 (Italy), Torun RT-32 (Poland), Shanghai RT-25 (China), Urumqi RT-25 (China), Simeiz RT-22 (Ukraine) et al. Combination of radar and VLBI methods allowed us to obtain a new scientific instrument for the measurements of short-periodic variations of planet proper rotations and for the determination of solar system body orbits in the Radio Reference Frame. Echo-signals from 25 space debris objects at geostationary, high-elliptical and half-day orbits as well as from Venus and Mars were detected. Precise Doppler shift, main period of rotation and size estimations were derived for some objects.
Keywords: near-earth bodies, receiving antennas, VLBI radar
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