The Deep Space 1 (DS1) mission has successfully validated the use of ion propulsion technology for interplanetary spacecraft. The NASA Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Technology Applications Readiness (NSTAR) Project developed the Ion Propulsion Subsystem (IPS) for DS1. As part of the NSTAR validation effort, the NSTAR Project included a diagnostics element to characterize the local environment produced during IPS operations and its effects on spacecraft subsystems and science instruments. An integrated, comprehensive set of diagnostics, the NSTAR Diagnostics Package (NPD) was developed and operated on DS1 to characterize the IPS environment. The DS1 Spacecraft Team officially assigned the name “IPS Diagnostics Subsystems (IDS)” to the NDP for the DS1 mission. During the technology validation phase of the DS1 mission, a large amount of data was collected from the IDS under a variety of IPS operating conditions. IDS was able to characterize the contamination environment, charge-exchange xenon ion and electron population and energies, plasma noise and electromagnetic noise, and magnetic fields associated with IPS. The results presented here describe the charge-exchange plasma, contamination, plasma wave/EMI, and DC magnetic environments critical to designers of future space missions using ion propulsion


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    An overview of results from the ion diagnostics sensors flown on DS1


    Contributors:
    Henty, M. D. (author) / Glassmeier, K. -H. (author) / Othmer, C. (author) / Richter, I. (author) / Kuhnke, F. (author) / Musmann, G. (author) / Moses, S. (author) / Davis, V. A. (author) / Katz, I. (author) / Tsurutani, B. T. (author)

    Publication date :

    2001-01-10


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English



    An overview of results from the ion diagnostics sensors flown on DS1

    Brinza, D. / Henry, M. / Mactutis, A. et al. | AIAA | 2001


    InSight EDL Overview and As-Flown Performance

    Zumwalt, C. / Sklyanskiy, E. / Lobbia, M. et al. | NTRS | 2019


    Manually flown windshear recovery technique

    Kupcis, E.A. | Tema Archive | 1990


    An auxiliary sailplane has flown

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1923


    How atlantic will be flown

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1939