A survey of DMSP data has uncovered several cases where precipitating auroral electron fluxes are both sufficiently intense and energetic to charge spacecraft materials such as teflon to very large potentials in the absence of ambient ion currents. Analytical bounds are provided which show that these measured environments can cause surface potentials in excess of several hundred volts to develop on objects in the orbiter wake for particular vehicle orientations.


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    Titel :

    Polar orbit electrostatic charging of objects in shuttle wake


    Beteiligte:
    Katz, I. (Autor:in) / Parks, D. E. (Autor:in) / Cooke, D. L. (Autor:in) / Mandell, M. J. (Autor:in) / Rubin, A. J. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.03.1985


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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