Search and observations of space debris and near earth objects at Inasan Original Research Article

The concept of Space Debris is tightly connected with the rapidly developing activity of men in space, and accompanied by a contamination of the surrounding space by artificial debris. Besides artificial debris, in the vicinity of the Earth is moving a large number of natural celestial bodies: comets, mini-comets, asteroids, meteor streams with fragments of various sizes and chemical composition. Our activity in the observations concentrates in three directions: position observations of artificial objects on the geostationary orbit (GEO); photometric observations on GEO and LEO (low orbits); observations of natural near-Earth objects (NEO). Scientific investigations are carried out in the following directions: explosions of upper stages of rockets in LEO and GEO; solar radiation pressure and its influence on the evolution of orbits; space debris on GEO; natural objectsʹ population in near-Earth space.