Spacecraft potential control aboard Equator-S as a test for Cluster-II

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1582-1591

  Torkar, K ^a   Riedler, W ^a   Fehringer, M ^b   Rudenauer F ^b   Escoubet, C P ^c   Arends, H ^c   Narheim, B T ^d   Svenes, K ^d   McCarthy, M P ^e   Parks, G K ^e   Lin, R P ^f   Reme H ^g  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^b ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

Space plasma physics (active perturbation experiments; spacecraft sheaths, wakes, charging; instruments and techniques)

Indexed keywords

EID: 5844306402     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-1582-3     Document Type: Article

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