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Radiation and plasma environments for lunar missions
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Blackwell Jr., William C. Harine, Katherine J. Diekmann, Anne M. Edwards, David L. Minow, Joseph I. Altstatt, Richard L. |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Description | Space system design for lunar orbit and extended operations on the lunar surface requires analysis of potential system vulnerabilities to plasma and radiation environments to minimize anomalies and assure that environmental failures do not occur during the mission. Individual environments include the trapped particles in Earth s radiation belts, solar energetic particles and galactic cosmic rays, plasma environments encountered in transit to the moon and on the lunar surface (solar wind, terrestrial magnetosheath and magnetotail, and lunar photoelectrons), and solar ultraviolet and extreme ultraviolet photons. These are the plasma and radiation environments which contribute to a variety of effects on space systems including total ionizing dose and dose rate effects in electronics, degradation of materials in the space environment, and charging of spacecraft and lunar dust. This paper provides a survey of the relevant charged particle and photon environments of importance to lunar mission design ranging from the lowest (approx.few 10 s eV) photoelectron energies to the highest (approx.GeV) cosmic ray energies. |
| File Size | 24560161 |
| Page Count | 38 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20070004634 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t79s6qv9z |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2006-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Solar Physics Radiation Belts Aerospace Environments Lunar Orbits Mission Planning Plasma Radiation Lunar Rangefinding Charged Particles Solar Wind Energetic Particles Terrestrial Radiation Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |