Physics of Satellite Surface Charging

This book will explore the fundamentals of spacecraft charging: why it occurs, when it occurs, where it occurs, how to measure it, and its side effects.

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SHU T. LAI earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from Brandeis University

and his B.Sc. from the University of Hong Kong. He earned his

Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management from

Harvard University. He did research at AFRL. He is currently affiliated

with the Space Propulsion Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, and the Institute of Scientific Research, Boston College. A

recognized leader in spacecraft interactions with space plasmas, he has

written more than one hundred publications and owns three patents. He is

a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the

Institute of Physics, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He

has served as the Chair of the AIAA Atmospheric and Space

Environments Technical Committee and the Chair of the AIAA

Atmospheric and Space Environments Standards Committee. He is now

serving as a Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.

REZY PRADIPTA earned his Ph.D. and S.M. in Nuclear Science and

Engineering and his S.B. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology. He did his postdoctoral work at the Institute for Scientific

Research, Boston College. He is currently a senior research scientist at

the Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College. His research is about

space plasma phenomena and their potential impacts on technological

systems using observations from multi-diagnostic instruments such as

radars and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). These space

phenomena include ionospheric plasma density irregularities, traveling

ionospheric disturbances (TIDs), acoustic-gravity waves (AGWs), and

equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs). In addition to research activities, he

also teaches an upper level undergraduate course (Space Weather and

Consequences) at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science,

Boston College.

Inhalt

Foreword vii
Biography ix

CHAPTER 1 Overview 1

CHAPTER 2 Spacecraft Equilibrium Potential 11

CHAPTER 3 Current Balance 19

CHAPTER 4 How to Measure Spacecraft Potential 25

CHAPTER 5 Secondary and Backscattered Electrons 33

CHAPTER 6 Critical Temperature for the Onset of Spacecraft Charging 43

CHAPTER 7 Importance of Surface Conditions 55

CHAPTER 8 High-Level Spacecraft Potential 63

CHAPTER 9 Spacecraft Charging in Sunlight 71

CHAPTER 10 The Monopole-Dipole Model 81

CHAPTER 11 The Question of Independence on Ambient Electron Density in Spacecraft Charging 91

CHAPTER 12 Spacecraft Charging Induced by Beam Emissions 101

CHAPTER 13 Mitigation Methods 115

Index 125