LPL Newsletter for March 2022
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
News this month is focused on efforts at LPL and UArizona to track space debris and lunar traffic jams. LPL Associate Professor Vishnu Reddy and SIE Professor Roberto Furfaro have received funding from the Air Force Research Lab in support of developing ways to detect, characterize and track objects in the space between Earth and the moon. And students working at LPL's Space Domain Awareness Lab have confirmed that the presumed SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that's on a course to hit the moon on March 4 is actually a Chinese booster from a 2014 rocket launch.
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$7.5M Effort Seeks to Prevent Lunar Traffic Jams
LPL Associate Professor Vishnu Reddy and Professor Roberto Furfaro of the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering received funding from the Air Force Research Lab in support of developing ways to detect, characterize and track objects in cislunar space, or the space between Earth and the moon.
UArizona Students Confirm Errant Rocket's Chinese Origin, Track Lunar Collision Course
Students from the Space Domain Awareness Lab at LPL have had their eyes on the piece of space junk for weeks as they studied its rotation. They have been gathering other data as well, which they used to confirm its Chinese origin.