Progress Toward Predicting High-Voltage Charging of Spacecraft in Low Polar Orbit.

Abstract

This report presented a paper on 'The Aerospace Environment at High Altitudes and its Implications for Spacecraft Charging and Communications, The Hague, Netherlands, 2-6 June 1986. This paper is primarily of a survey nature, and contains relatively brief accounts of several aspects of the low polar orbit high voltage charging problem. However, does present the first results from L.W. Parker's simulation work which was supported by this Contract. This report also contains the text of a paper on an expanded version of an earlier paper on secondary electron escape from negatively charged spacecraft surfaces in a magnetic field, and now includes results for situations in which there exist electric fields tangential as well as normal to the surface.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 28, 1986
Accession Number
ADA176939

Entities

People

  • J. G. Laframboise
  • L. W. Parker

Organizations

  • University of York

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Environments
  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Charged Particles
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Contracts
  • Current Density
  • Earth Orbits
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Environment
  • Geometry
  • Ions
  • Simulations
  • Spacecraft
  • Spacecraft Charging
  • Voltage

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Space