Spacecraft Charge Monitor

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003agufmsa12b1105g&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003, abstract #SA12B-1105

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2459 Planetary Ionospheres (5435, 5729, 6026, 6027, 6028), 2494 Instruments And Techniques, 7855 Spacecraft Sheaths, Wakes, Charging, 7894 Instruments And Techniques

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We are currently developing a flight prototype Spacecraft Charge Monitor (SCM) with support from NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The device will use a recently proposed high energy-resolution electron spectroscopic technique to determine spacecraft floating potential. The inspiration for the technique came from data collected by the Atmosphere Explorer (AE) satellites in the 1970s. The data available from the AE satellites indicate that the SCM may be able to determine spacecraft floating potential to within 0.1 V under certain conditions. Such accurate measurement of spacecraft charge could be used to correct biases in space plasma measurements. The device may also be able to measure spacecraft floating potential in the solar wind and in orbit around other planets.

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