A Summary of the Engineering Results from the Aerospace Corp. Experiments on the SCATHA Spacecraft

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Nov 1998

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Proceedings of the 6th Spacecraft Charging Conference. November 2-6, 1998. AFRL Science Center, Hanscom AFB, MA, USA., p.243-249

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The Aerospace Corporation experiments on the SCATHA spacecraft consist of the surface potential monitor, pulse analyzer, RF analyzer, VLF analyzer, sheath electric fields, energetic ions, and the spacecraft contamination and thermal control materials monitoring experiments. High lights of the most important engineering results obtained with these instruments will be described. These include the specification of the environment obtained from the "worst-case" surface-charging event on 22 September 1982, the correlation of the discharges measured by the pulse analyzer with the electron environment, the delineation of the surface charging region, changes in the bulk conductivity of Kapton over the first year of the mission, and evidence that spacecraft charging is responsible for an increase in the rate of molecular contamination on exterior spacecraft surfaces. This increase is significant for surfaces with otherwise low contamination rates.

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