Vehicle charging as measured by the Shuttle Potential and Return Electron Experiment aboard Tethered Satellite System 1
Abstract
Accounts are given of both negative and positive charging measurements obtained on the Space Shuttle Orbiter during the operation of the Tethered Satellite System-1 (TSS-1). Preliminary results indicate that the Orbiter was negatively charged to -47 V when tether current was shunted to ground, and charged positively from tens to hundreds of volts over the course of some TSS-1 electron-beam operations that were conducted in conjunction with tether current flow.
- Publication:
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31st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit
- Pub Date:
- January 1993
- Bibcode:
- 1993aiaa.meetS....O
- Keywords:
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- Electric Potential;
- Space Shuttle Payloads;
- Spacecraft Charging;
- Tethered Satellites;
- Electric Current;
- Spacecraft Instruments;
- Tetherlines;
- Wave-Particle Interactions;
- Spacecraft Design, Testing and Performance