Review of Spectral Characterization and Identification of Unresolved Space Objects

LI Zhi; WANG Xia; XU Can; LI Peng; HUO Yu-rong; FU Jing-yu1; WANG Pei; FENG Fei

doi:10.3964/j.issn.1000-0593(2023)05-1329-11

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