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The separation of the micro-Doppler curve of the scattering center is the key to feature extraction and parameter estimation, which depends on the time\u2013frequency analysis method. The existing techniques have low separation accuracy and adaptability when there are overlap and noise in the time\u2013frequency domain. This paper proposes a micro-Doppler feature extraction algorithm of a space target based on the modified synchro-reassigning transform (MSRT) and ridge segment linking. The MSRT can eliminate repeated assignment problems, has more accurate micro-Doppler frequency estimates than the synchro-reassigning transform, and has lower computational complexity than second-order synchronous compression and synchronous extraction transforms. The re-linking of the ridge realizes the correct connection of the micro-Doppler curves of each scattering center. 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