Development of multi-utility spacecraft charging analysis tool (MUSCAT)

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 2, 2008, Pages 2336-2349

  Muranaka, Takanobu ^a   Hosoda, Satoshi ^a   Kim, Jeong Ho ^b   Hatta, Shinji ^b   Ikeda, Koichiro ^c,e   Hamanaga, Takamitsu ^c,f   Cho, Mengu ^c   Usui, Hideyuki ^d   Ueda, Hiroko O ^a   Koga, Kiyokazu ^a   Goka, Tateo ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Multiutility Spacecraft Charging Analysis Tool (MUSCAT)   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e YASKAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^f MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aircraft manufacture; Computational modeling; Electric potential; Numerical models; Satellites; Simulation software; Solid modeling; Space vehicles; Spacecraft charging

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE; AIRCRAFT MODELS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA TRANSFER; DATA VISUALIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MOSFET DEVICES; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORBITS; PHASE INTERFACES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SATELLITES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEHICLES;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; SIMULATION SOFTWARE; SOLID MODELING; SPACE VEHICLES; SPACECRAFT CHARGING;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 59749100028     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.2003974     Document Type: Article

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