Satellites in geosynchronous orbit were 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 are used to generate the provisional specification given in this report.


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    Title :

    Provisional specification for satellite time in a geomagnetic environment


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1977-02-24


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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