Real time: Automatic vehicle potential determination from ESA (Electrostatic Analyzer) measurements. Part 2: The distribution function algorithm
Abstract
A technique has been developed that uses electrostatic analyzer positive ion count measurements to compute plasma distribution functions to infer high altitude vehicle potential in real time.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- May 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985STIN...8623634S
- Keywords:
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- Algorithms;
- Electrostatic Probes;
- Plasmas (Physics);
- Real Time Operation;
- Automatic Control;
- Cations;
- Counting;
- Distribution Functions;
- High Altitude;
- Space Charge;
- Synchronous Satellites;
- Spacecraft Instrumentation