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Spacecraft charging requirements and engineering issuesAn effort is currently underway to recast and combine two NASA guidelines for mitigating the effects of spacecraft charging and electrostatic discharge on spacecraft. The task has the goal of taking the existing NASA guidelines for preventing surface electrostatic charging, NASA-TP-2361 (Purvis et al., 1984), and internal electrostatic charging, NASAHDBK 4002 (Whittlesey, 1999), and bringing them up to date with recent laboratory and onorbit findings. This paper will describe the status of those on-going efforts to combine and update the two guidelines. Reasons for the upgrades will be presented, including new subject material for which there is now a greater understanding or a greater need which changes satellite design procedures, or both. There will be an emphasis on the proposed contents and on the differences and similarities between surface and internal charging mitigation techniques. In addition, the mitigation requirements that can be derived from the combined handbook will be discussed with emphasis on how they might affect the engineering design and testing of future spacecraft.
Document ID
20060043868
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Garrett, Henry B.
Whittlesey, Albert C.
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 9, 2006
Meeting Information
Meeting: 44th AIAA Aerospace Meeting and Exhibit
Location: Reno, NV
Country: United States
Start Date: January 9, 2006
End Date: January 14, 2006
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
charging guidelines
internal charging
spacecraft charging

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