1st Edition
Physics of Satellite Surface Charging Causes, Effects, and Applications
Foreword vii
Biography ix
CHAPTER 1 ■ Overview 1
CHAPTER 2 ■ Spacecraft Equilibrium Potential 11
CHAPTER 3 ■ Current Balance 19
CHAPTER 4 ■ How to Measure Spacecraft Potential 25
CHAPTER 5 ■ Secondary and Backscattered Electrons 33
CHAPTER 6 ■ Critical Temperature for the Onset of Spacecraft Charging 43
CHAPTER 7 ■ Importance of Surface Conditions 55
CHAPTER 8 ■ High-Level Spacecraft Potential 63
CHAPTER 9 ■ Spacecraft Charging in Sunlight 71
CHAPTER 10 ■ The Monopole-Dipole Model 81
CHAPTER 11 ■ The Question of Independence on Ambient Electron Density in Spacecraft Charging 91
CHAPTER 12 ■ Spacecraft Charging Induced by Beam Emissions 101
CHAPTER 13 ■ Mitigation Methods 115
Index 125
Biography
SHU T. LAI earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from Brandeis University
and his B.Sc. from the University of Hong Kong. He earned his
Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management from
Harvard University. He did research at AFRL. He is currently affiliated
with the Space Propulsion Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and the Institute of Scientific Research, Boston College. A
recognized leader in spacecraft interactions with space plasmas, he has
written more than one hundred publications and owns three patents. He is
a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the
Institute of Physics, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He
has served as the Chair of the AIAA Atmospheric and Space
Environments Technical Committee and the Chair of the AIAA
Atmospheric and Space Environments Standards Committee. He is now
serving as a Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.
REZY PRADIPTA earned his Ph.D. and S.M. in Nuclear Science and
Engineering and his S.B. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He did his postdoctoral work at the Institute for Scientific
Research, Boston College. He is currently a senior research scientist at
the Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College. His research is about
space plasma phenomena and their potential impacts on technological
systems using observations from multi-diagnostic instruments such as
radars and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). These space
phenomena include ionospheric plasma density irregularities, traveling
ionospheric disturbances (TIDs), acoustic-gravity waves (AGWs), and
equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs). In addition to research activities, he
also teaches an upper level undergraduate course (Space Weather and
Consequences) at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science,
Boston College.
