The flux for detected objects is also presented after correcting for effects of earth shadow height on time of collection. Overall, the data are in fairly good agreement. The LMT flux appears to be slightly higher than the radar flux for altitudes less than 1000 km. The two sensors could be detecting slightly different populations. Or, if the albedo used for the size estimation was increased from the median value of 0.10 to the average value of about 0.17, all of the sizes would decrease, which would lower the flux and bring the two data sets into better agreement.
More work is needed to better quantify the distribution of the albedo of small debris objects.
Radar became operational and started collecting debris data. It also serves as a comprehensive document describing the steps used to collect, process, analyze, and characterize the orbital debris environment. The main body of this report includes a description of the measurements, data processing, and results. Appendix A summarizes the previous reports. Appendix B contains a description of the various plots generated from the Haystack and HAX data.