Laboratory experiments on mitigation against arcing on high voltage solar array in simulated leo plasma environment

40th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Cho, Mengu ^a   Shiraishi, Ko ^a   Toyoda, Kazuhiro ^a   Hikita, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ORBITS;

CONDUCTIVE COATINGS; HIGH VOLTAGE SOLAR ARRAYS; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW EARTH ORBITS; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMA ENVIRONMENTS; SURFACE DEGRADATION;

SOLAR CELL ARRAYS;

EID: 85088343074     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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