Actions for Mining CRRES IDM Pulse Data and CRRES Environmental Data to Improve Spacecraft Charging

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Mining CRRES IDM Pulse Data and CRRES Environmental Data to Improve Spacecraft Charging/Discharging Models and Guidelines

Author
Frederickson, A. R.
Published
June 2004.
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1 electronic document
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Brautigam, D. H.
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One can truly predict the charging and pulsing in space over a year's time using only the physics that worked for periods of an hour and less in prior publications. All portions of the task were achieved, including the optional portion of determining a value for conductivity that best .t the data. Fortran statements were developed that are required for the NUMIT runs to work with this kind of data from space. In addition to developing the Fortran for NUMIT, simple correlations between the IDM pulsing history and the space radiation were observed because we now have a better characterization of the space radiation. The study showed that: (1) the new methods for measurement of charge storage and conduction in insulators provide the correct values to use for prediction of charging and pulsing in space; (2) the methods in NUMIT that worked well for time durations less than hours now work well for durations of months; (3) an average spectrum such as AE8 is probably not a good guide for predicting pulsing in space one must take time dependence into account in order to understand insulator pulsing; and (4) the old method for predicting pulse rates in space that was based on the CRRES data could be improved to include dependencies on material parameters.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 20040084820.
NASA/CR-2004-213228.
M-1111.
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