Abstract Magnetic activity on the Sun causes disturbances moving out through interplanetary space as a stronger than usual solar wind. Enhanced solar activity can also produce large fluxes of penetrating energetic protons of great destructive potential. When either of these phenomena arrives near the Earth and strikes a satellite or spacecraft, damage is likely to be done, either directly and indirectly. Here we give an overview of the several different effects which occur in low Earth orbit (LEO), in medium Earth orbit (MEO), and in geostationary orbit (GEO) as well as in high inclination elliptical Earth orbits where positioning satellites are located.
Space Weather and Hazards to Application Satellites
Handbook of Satellite Applications ; 1175-1193
01.01.2013
19 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Radio communications , Satellite operations , Plasma , Ionospheric scintillations , Magnetic storm , Atomic oxygen , Solar cycle , Space weather , Sunspots , Satellite drag , Galactic cosmic rays , Space debris , Single event upsets , Van Allen radiation belts , Ionosphere , Space environment , Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) , “Killer” electrons , Solar activity , Solar protons Communications Engineering, Networks , Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks , Space Weather and Hazards to Application Satellites , Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Applied and Technical Physics , Engineering , Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry
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