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Vehicle charging on sts-3 mission
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Storey, L. R. O. Banks, P. M. Williamson, P. R. Raitt, W. J. |
| Copyright Year | 1985 |
| Description | In the Vehicle Charging and Potential experiment on the STS-3 mission, a pulsed electron gun was used to eject known charges and currents from the Shuttle Orbiter, and the resulting perturbations of the surface charge and current densities were studied with appropriate instruments. An ejected current of 100 mA, if maintained for a time sufficiently long for equilibrium to be established, could change the vehicle potential by 50 V or more when the ambient plasma density was low. In general, the observed perturbations could be ordered qualitatively in terms of the plasma density and of the attitude of the shuttle relative to its orbital velocity vector. |
| File Size | 781430 |
| Page Count | 14 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19850014162 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3809zw2q |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1985-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance Plasma Diagnostics Electromagnetic Interference Spacecraft Charging Space Shuttles Electron Guns Dielectrics Plasma Density Current Density Oss-1 Payload Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
