Spacecraft Charging Thresholds in Single and Double Maxwellian Space Environments

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 1629-1634

  Lai, Shu T ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS--DENSITY MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MAXWELLIAN MODEL; SPACECRAFT CHARGING;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0026393368     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.124155     Document Type: Article

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