EPSAT (Environment Power System Analysis Tool) is used to examine the design of SPEAR III, which is scheduled to fly in early 1991. It will test high-voltage designs in both ambient and system-generated environments. Two of the key questions that the experiment hopes to address are whether or not the Earth's magnetic field can cause the current that a high-voltage object draws from the plasma to be far less than the current that would be drawn in the absence of the magnetic field and under what neutral environmental conditions a discharge from the high-voltage object to the plasma will occur. The EPSAT program makes it possible to perform a variety of analyses on a preliminary or conceptual-level description of a system in a short period of time. The calculations presented on SPEAR III are all done for a conceptual-level description. The calculations indicate that the experiment will produce the conditions necessary to address these questions
High voltage interactions of a sounding rocket with the ambient and system-generated environments
Hochspannungswechselwirkungen einer Rakete bei umgebungsbedingten und systemerzeugten Einflüssen
1990 IEEE Annual Conference on Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects (NSREC), 16-20 July 1990, Reno, NV, USA ; 2128-2133
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science ; 37 , 6, PT.1
1990
6 Seiten, 13 Quellen
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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