The principles of the operation of plasma sources for the neutralization of the surface of a spacecraft traveling in the presence of hot plasma are discussed with special attention given to the hollow-cathode-based plasma contactors. Techiques are developed that allow the calculation of the potentials and particle densities in the near environment of a hollow cathode plasma contactor in both the test tank and the LEO environment. The techniques and codes were validated by comparison of calculated and measured results.
Plasma sources for spacecraft neutralization
01.06.1990
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
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Englisch
Plasma sources for spacecraft neutralization
AIAA | 1990
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