Space debris experimentation study using incoherent scatter radar

This is the first space debris exploration experiment in China that use Europe Incoherent Scatter(EISCAT) Radar. Based on the principle of ionosphere exploration in EISCAT radar and space debris with high population, the match filter method is used to analyze debris data from Europe incoherent scatter radar expriment on March 25 2010, a 15 hour debris measurement, get 24enents per hours,and by statistical analysis debris population height is got. The result shows that most debris target high locate at between 800 km and 1000 km, which shows good agreement with existent theory model of space debris high population, we run a 15 hour debris measurement, get 24enents per hours, and compared the debris target information at 10:31:05 am March 25, 2010 with theory forecast debris model of National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences, authenticated that debris target is discard communications satellite of United States, international designator is 1965-065F, errors in high is only 0.97 km, which verify that debris detection method used fixed ionsphere exploration pattern in incoherent scatter radar is feasible.