Atmospherically Induced Optical Contamination from Orbiting Thrusters

Abstract

This paper presents the result of the SOCRATES (Shuttle Orbiter Contamination Representation Accounting for Transiently Emitted Species) code which has been developed to assess the effects of contamination of measurements aboard spacecraft in low earth orbit. SOCRATES is a Monte Carlo code which includes in its present version scattering, collisions leading to kinetic-to- vibrational energy transfer, and reactive collisions. The application of this code to actual measurements aboard spacecraft in low earth orbit makes it possible to evaluate data obtained on these platforms with a view towards extracting the data of interest from contaminated signals.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 19, 1989
Accession Number
ADA223112

Entities

People

  • J. B. Elgin
  • M. Tautz

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Collisions
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Earth Orbits
  • Energy Transfer
  • Far Field
  • Line Of Sight
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Measurement
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Near Field
  • Orbits
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Space Shuttles
  • Spacecraft

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster