Electrical Interference to Satellite Subsystems Resulting from Spacecraft Charging.

摘要

A physically reasonable mechanism for explaining the coupling between one type of spacecraft electronics subsystem and electrical discharges has been presented. A laboratory simulation of the coupling to the signal processing electronics has shown quantitative agreement between the test results and the anomalous detector responses that have been observed in orbit. The results of this study and experimental flight data collected by a satellite-charging experiment flown on this spacecraft confirm that these anomalies are likely generated by direct current surges from arc discharges. (Author)