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Flight Plasma Diagnostics for High-Power, Solar-Electric Deep-Space SpacecraftNASA's Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) project plans included a set of plasma and space environment instruments, the Plasma Diagnostic Package (PDP), to fulfill ARRM requirements for technology extensibility to future missions. The PDP objectives were divided into the classes of 1) Plasma thruster dynamics, 2) Solar array-specific environmental effects, 3) Plasma environmental spacecraft effects, and 4) Energetic particle spacecraft environment. A reference design approach and interface requirements for ARRM's PDP was generated by the PDP team at JPL and GRC. The reference design consisted of redundant single-string avionics located on the ARRM spacecraft bus as well as solar array, driving and processing signals from multiple copies of several types of plasma, effects, and environments sensors distributed over the spacecraft and array. The reference design sensor types were derived in part from sensors previously developed for USAF Research Laboratory (AFRL) plasma effects campaigns such as those aboard TacSat-2 in 2007 and AEHF-2 in 2012.
Document ID
20180002198
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Johnson, Lee
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
De Soria-Santacruz Pich, Maria
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Conroy, David
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lobbia, Robert
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Huang, Wensheng
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Choi, Maria
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Sekerak, Michael J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
April 6, 2018
Publication Date
March 3, 2018
Subject Category
Spacecraft Propulsion And Power
Report/Patent Number
GRC-E-DAA-TN48365
Meeting Information
Meeting: IEEE Aerospace Conference
Location: Big Sky, MT
Country: United States
Start Date: March 3, 2018
End Date: March 10, 2018
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 837933.06.03.03
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNN12AA01C
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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