The core of our software has been developed in the past decade, mostly during two ESA and DLR funded grants[1],[2]. In this time, a complete SST (Space, Surveillance and Tracking) software, called Apollon, has been created, which can perform all relevant tasks, from initial and statistical orbit determination of arbitrary measurements (range,range rate, angular, GPS, […]

Space is crowded. As of date, more than 300,000 objects larger than 1 cm are in orbit around Earth[1]. The origins of these objects are many fold: Most large objects are satellites(active and used ones), rocket upper stages, and mission related objects such as adapter rings etc. Although they by far include most of the […]