Photographic Measurements of Electrical Discharges.

Abstract

Design, fabrication, testing, installation on a sounding rocket equipped with electron and positive-ion accelerators, and flight into the ionosphere of an automatic 16-mm camera are described. A split-field mirror and relay lens system was erected 15 cm outboard from the rocket body for photographing the radiation from electric discharges induced by the potential across an insulating gap separating two sections of the cylindrical body, and the plasma sheath surrounding it. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 1978
Accession Number
ADA058469

Entities

People

  • Irving L. Kofsky
  • Randall B. Sluder

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Assembly
  • Cameras
  • Continuous Processing
  • Dielectrics
  • Electric Discharges
  • Electrodes
  • Electrons
  • Engineering
  • Ground Based
  • Images
  • Ion Accelerators
  • Measurement
  • Plasma Sheaths
  • Sounding Rockets
  • Spacecraft Charging
  • Telescopes

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Geodesy
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics