Dr.-Ing.
Carsten
Wiedemann
Institute of Space Systems, TU Braunschweig
Dr.-Ing. Carsten Wiedemann is a permanently employed senior scientist at the Institute of Space Systems at the Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany). His responsibilities include: quality manager of the institute, team head of the space debris group, organization and presentation of lectures, supervision of student research projects, and scientific project work. He is member of the delegation of the German space agency at the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC). His field of research is modelling of the space debris environment. His development and upgrading of the ESA MASTER (Meteoroid and Space Debris Terrestrial Environment Reference) model constitutes important research and endeavor in the field of Space.
Information provided is current as of July 2015
From the Author
A Model of the Space Debris Environment
The Scientific Research Concerning Particle Fluxes on Satellites
By Dr.-Ing.
Carsten
Wiedemann
Space debris is already an important part of the space environment which must be considered during planning and operation of a satellite or constellation of satellites. If larger objects are approaching the satellite, it is [...]
