Development of Electron-Emitting Film for Spacecraft Charging Mitigation: Observation, endurance and simulations

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Iwata, Minoru ^a   Sumida, Takahiro ^a   Igawa, Hideyuki ^a   Fujiwara, Yoshihiko ^a   Okumura, Teppei ^a   Khan, Md Arifur R ^a   Toyoda, Kazuhiro ^a   Cho, Mengu ^a   Hatta, Shinji ^b   Sato, Tetsuro ^c   Fujita, Tatsuhito ^d  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

^c Fuchigami Micro Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUS VOLTAGE; COPPER LAMINATES; COPPER SURFACE; CURRENT EMISSIONS; ELECTRON EMISSION CURRENTS; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; GEO SATELLITES; GROUND HANDLING; IN-ORBIT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICRO-ETCHING; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES; POLYIMIDE FILM; PREBREAKDOWN; SPACECRAFT CHARGING; STEADY STATE; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; POLYIMIDES; POLYMERIC FILMS; SPACECRAFT;

ELECTRON EMISSION;

EID: 78549259354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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