Recent Advances in Spacecraft Charging

Abstract

This is an overview on advances achieved in the past decade on spacecraft charging. The topics discussed are the failures of SC2, the bootstrap, asymmetric potential, critical temperature, triple-root potentials, sheath engulfment, charging in wakes, supercharging, sheath ionization, beam emission for mitigation of charging, and anomalies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 08, 1994
Accession Number
ADA277468

Entities

People

  • Shu T. Lai

Organizations

  • Phillips Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Charged Particles
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Critical Temperature
  • Dielectrics
  • Earth Orbits
  • Electric Discharges
  • Electron Beams
  • Emission
  • Environment
  • High Voltage
  • Ion Beams
  • Ionization
  • Ionosphere
  • Spacecraft
  • Spacecraft Charging
  • Voltage

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster