EISCAT Space Debris during the IPY- A 5000-Hour Campaign

During the International Polar Year (IPY) in 2007-2009, EISCAT measured space debris at its Svalbard radar (ESR, latitude 78.2°N), simultaneously with the standard ionospheric measurement. From the 239 000 events which were recorded in 5060 hours only a "Quality Set" (QS) was extracted for further analysis. The QS essentially consists of 101 complete 24-hour beam park debris measurements, between 13 Mar 2007 and 10 Feb 2008, and contains about 95 000 events. The data provide a relatively dense sampling of the debris environment above ESR in the first year following the Chinese ASAT event, in January 2007. The QS is freely available in the web.