High voltage interactions of a sounding rocket with the ambient and system-generated environments

Autor:	G.A. Jongeward, K.G. Wilcox, J. C. Roche, T.V. Rankin, R.A. Kuharski
Rok vydání:	1990
Předmět:	Spacecraft charging Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics Electric power system Sounding rocket Nuclear Energy and Engineering Arc flash High voltage Atmospheric electricity Electrical and Electronic Engineering Spear Current (fluid) Simulation
Zdroj:	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 37:2128-2133
ISSN:	1558-1578 0018-9499
Popis:	EPSAT (Environment Power System Analysis Tool) is used to examine the design of SPEAR III, which is scheduled to fly in early 1991. It will test high-voltage designs in both ambient and system-generated environments. Two of the key questions that the experiment hopes to address are whether or not the Earth's magnetic field can cause the current that a high-voltage object draws from the plasma to be far less than the current that would be drawn in the absence of the magnetic field and under what neutral environmental conditions a discharge from the high-voltage object to the plasma will occur. The EPSAT program makes it possible to perform a variety of analyses on a preliminary or conceptual-level description of a system in a short period of time. The calculations presented on SPEAR III are all done for a conceptual-level description. The calculations indicate that the experiment will produce the conditions necessary to address these questions. >
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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