Spacecraft inevitably interact with their environments. Besides the interactions one immediately thinks of in space (zero-g, solar heating, atmospheric drag, expansion into vacuum conditions, etc.) other interactions are also important. Those of interest to spacecraft designers so far may be grouped under several headings; plasma interactions and spacecraft charging, impact of debris and micrometeoroids, chemical reactions with neutral species, radiation degradation, etc. Researchers have made great progress in defining and evaluating the interactions of spacecraft with their expected ambient environments near Earth and in interplanetary space. Some of these interactions are discussed with an eye toward expanding our knowledge into new environments, such as may be found at the moon and Mars, that will interact in new and different ways with exploring spacecraft and spacefarers.
Interactions between Spacecraft and Their Environments
1993
12 pages
Report
No indication
English
Unmanned Spacecraft , Manned Spacecraft , Astronautics , Aerospace environments , Chemical reactions , Micrometeoroids , Plasma interactions , Radiation effects , Space debris , Spacecraft charging , Dielectrics , Earth orbital environments , Electrical faults , Lunar environment , Oxygen atoms , Planetary environments , Sputtering , Spacecraft interactions
Interactions between spacecraft and their environments
NTRS | 1993
|Interactions between spacecraft and their environments
AIAA | 1993
|Interactions between spacecraft and their environments
NTRS | 1993
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