A comparison of Radon domain approaches for resident space object’s parameter estimation

The amount of space debris orbiting around the Earth has seen a dramatic growth through the recent years. This growth is fed by an avalanche multiplication process. In fact, according to the “Kessler syndrome”, any collision generates more debris that then collide with other objects and produce further debris. This growth represents a serious hazard for operational spacecraft, human activities in space and even the Earth environment since their re-enter is uncontrolled. Thus, it is important to continuously monitor and characterize them. Instrumental features for their characterization are surely represented by their size and spin rate. The Inverse Radon transform (IRT) tool has been proved to be a valid solution for this task. In this paper, we propose a comparison study between different approaches based on IRT for the estimation of the object’s rotation period.