Questions That Need to Be Answered,

Abstract

In the proceedings of the 1980 Spacecraft Charging Conference, Parks and Katz used space-charge-limited flow theory to show that large vehicles in a low polar orbit could charge to high potentials due to auroral energetic electrons. The implications of high potentials on spacecraft are serious. From the author's experience with studying the charging and discharging of spacecraft he has prepared a series of questions about large potentials on spacecraft in low polar orbit.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 25, 1983
Accession Number
ADP002127

Entities

People

  • H. A. Cohen

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Electrons
  • Geophysics
  • Large Space Structures
  • Orbits
  • Polar Orbits
  • Research Facilities
  • Space Charge
  • Space Systems
  • Spacecraft
  • Spacecraft Charging
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Plasma Physics.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster