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Space plasma physics results from Spacelab 1The Spacelab 1 payload carried several instrument systems which together investigated a number of space plasma phenomena. These experiments used the Space Shuttle Orbiter as a platform for making controlled particle-beam, plasma and neutral gas inputs to the ionosphere and magnetosphere and for observing the outputs produced. Spacelab 1 space-plasma investigations included the Space Experiments with Particle Accelerators (SEPAC), Phenomena Induced by Charged Particle Beams (PICPAB), Atmospheric Emissions Photometric Imaging (AEPI) and the Low Energy Electron Spectrometer and Magnetometer. Among the major phenomena investigated both singly and jointly by these experiments are vehicle charging and neutralization, beam-plasma and wave-particle interactions, anomalous ionization phenomena produced by neutral-gas and plasma injections and several phenomena induced by modulated particle beam injections.
Document ID
19860033103
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Burch, J. L.
(Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1985
Subject Category
Geophysics
Report/Patent Number
AIAA PAPER 85-0150
Accession Number
86A17841
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS8-32488
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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