Although number densities are low at altitudes where spacecraft typically operate, high orbital speeds result in incident fluxes and collisional energies large enough to interact with and degrade material surfaces. Global thermospheric models, when combined with orbital mechanics models, may be used to predict atomic oxygen fluence, or total integrated flux incidence on spacecraft sentences. Fluence predictions, when used with STS materials reactivity measurements, provide reliable estimates of the oxidative effects on spacecraft surfaces.


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    Title :

    Environmental definition of the earth's neutral atmosphere


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    Publication date :

    1989-05-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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