Satellites in geosynchronous orbit have been experiencing operational anomalies. These anomalies are believed to be due to the environment charging the spacecraft surfaces to a point where discharges occur. In designing future satellites for long term operation at geosynchronous altitude, it is important that designers have a specification that will give the total time per year, the particle flux density, and particle energies that their satellites can be expected to encounter in these substorm environmental conditions. The limited data currently available on the environmental conditions was used to generate the provisional specification given.
Provisional specification for satellite time in a geomagnetic substorm environment
Joint Air Force-NASA Spacecraft Charging Conf. ; 1976 ; Colorado Springs, CO, United States
1976-01-01
Conference paper
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English
Geomagnetic pulsation over conjugate locations during geomagnetic storms and substorm
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