A feasibility study on the xenon and carbon dioxide gas release experiments on the ARGOS satellite

Details A feasibility study on the xenon and carbon dioxide gas release experiments on the ARGOS satellite A feasibility study on the xenon and carbon dioxide gas release experiments on the ARGOS satellite

Oct 1993

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Advances in Space Research, Volume 13, Issue 10, p. 81-89.

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Xenon and carbon dioxide gases will be released separately from the ARGOS satellite in an upcoming experiment. We discuss the expected interactions of the gases with the ambient environment. The satellite will travel at a speed of about 7.4 km/s at an altitude of 835 km. The feasibility of xenon undergoing the critical ionization velocity (CIV) process will be studied. We examine the expected domain of CIV governed by the relative velocity, release rate, beam width, magnetic field strength, pitch angle, ambient plasma density, seed ionization, excitation, and altitude. We do not expect carbon dioxide to undergo CIV, but to interact with the ambient H and O atoms to produce excited vibrational states of OH and CO molecules. We present simulation results on the radiation of the vibrational states.

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