The development of deep space surveillance technology and its later application to near-Earth surveillance, covering work at Lincoln Laboratory from 1970 to 2000.

Contents Preface ix About the Authors xv Acknowledgments xix 1 Historical Perspective 1 Antonio F. Pensa 2 Technology Development for Space Surveillance with Narrow-Beam Radars 15 Ramaswamy Sridharan and Israel Kupiec 3 Overview of Wideband Radar Imaging Technology at MIT Lincoln Laboratory 75 Craig Solodyna 4 Ground-Based Electro-Optical Technology Development 119 Eugene Rork 5 Technology Development for Space-Based Electro-Optical Deep-Space Surveillance 179 Jayant Sharma 6 Technology Developments in Catalog Discovery 203 Ramaswamy Sridharan and George Zollinger 7 Characterization of Resident Space Objects 237 Ramaswamy Sridharan and Richard Lambour 8 Conjunctions and Collisions of Resident Space Objects 295 Richard I. Abbot 9 Resulting Technology Applications 329 Joseph Scott Stuart, E. M. Gaposchkin, and Robert Bergemann Afterword 363 Index 365