Biasing techniques and their application to the control of spacecraft potential is discussed. Normally when a spacecraft is operated with ion thrusters, the spacecraft will be 10-20 volts negative of the surrounding plasma. This will affect scientific measurements and will allow ions from the charge-exchange plasma to bombard the spacecraft surfaces with a few tens of volts of energy. This condition may not be tolerable. A proper bias system is described that can bring the spacecraft to or near the potential of the surrounding plasma.


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    Titel :

    Solar array/spacecraft biasing


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1981-01-15


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

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    Sprache :

    Englisch




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