Modeling Ion propulsion plume interactions with spacecraft in formation flight

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Kafafy, Raed, Yong, Cao
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Royal Aeronautical Society 2010
• الموضوعات: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://irep.iium.edu.my/17253/4/Modelling_ion_propulsion_plume_interactions.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/17253/; http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Protected/Subscribers/AeroJournal/3488COLOUR.pdf

This paper presents a simulation study of ion thruster plume effects on formation flying spacecraft. Two formation flight applications using micro-ion propulsion are considered: an L2-Halo orbit interferometer formation and a LEO micro-satellite formation. Worst case scenarios in both missions have...