Fundamentals of spacecraft charging spacecraft interactions with space plasmas
As commercial and military spacecraft become more important to the world's economy and defense, and as new scientific and exploratory missions are launched into space, the need for a single comprehensive resource on spacecraft charging becomes increasingly critical. Fundamentals of Spacecraft C...
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Princeton, NJ
Princeton University Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : the Earth's space plasma environment
- Introduction to spacecraft charging
- The spacecraft as a Langmuir probe
- Secondary and backscattered electrons
- Spacecraft charging in a Maxwellian plasma
- Spacecraft charging in a double Maxwellian plasma
- Potential wells and barriers
- Spacecraft charging in sunlight
- Space tethers, plasma contactors, and sheath ionization
- Surface charging induced by electron beam impact
- Spacecraft charging induced by electron beam emission
- Supercharging
- Ion beam emission from spacecraft
- Discharges on spacecraft
- Energetic particle penetration into matter
- Spacecraft anomalies
- Deep dielectric charging
- Charging mitigation methods
- Introduction to meteors
- Meteor impacts
- Neutral gas release.