Spacecraft-Environment Interactions

Daniel Hastings; Henry Garrett

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511525032

Spacecraft interact with the space environment in ways that may affect the operation of the spacecraft as well as any scientific experiments that are carried out from the spacecraft platform. In turn the study of these interactions provides information on the space environment. The adverse environmental effects, such as the effect of the radiation belts on electronics, and spacecraft charging from the magnetospheric plasma, means that designers need to understand interactive phenomena to be able to effectively design spacecraft. This has led to the new discipline of spacecraft-environment interactions. The emphasis in this book is on the fundamental physics of the interactions. Spacecraft-Environment Interactions is a valuable introduction to the subject for all students and researchers interested in the application of fluid, gas, plasma and particle dynamics to spacecraft and for spacecraft system engineers.

‘… a valued addition to my bookshelf, as it will be to others.’

G. G. Swinerd Source: Journal of Aerospace Engineering

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-x

List of Illustrations
pp xi-xvi

List of Tables
pp xvii-xviii

Preface
pp xix-xxii

Acknowledgment
pp xxiii-xxiv

1 - Introduction
pp 1-15

2 - Fundamental Length, Time, and Velocity Scales
pp 16-43

3 - The Ambient Space Environment
pp 44-99

4 - Neutral Gas Interactions
pp 100-141

5 - Plasma Interactions
pp 142-207

6 - The Space Radiation Environment
pp 208-249

7 - Particulate Interactions
pp 250-270

8 - The State of the Art
pp 271-280

References
pp 281-290

Index
pp 291-292

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