Payload Charging Events in the Mesosphere and Their Impact on Langmuir Type Electric Probes
Three sounding rockets were launched from Andøya Rocket Range in the ECOMA campaign in December 2010. The aim was to study the evolution of meteoric smoke particles during a major meteor shower. Of the various instruments onboard the rocket payload, this paper presents the data from a multi-Needle L...
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ftembryriddleaun:oai:commons.erau.edu:publication-1741 2023-10-01T03:50:13+02:00 Payload Charging Events in the Mesosphere and Their Impact on Langmuir Type Electric Probes Bekkeng, T. A. Barjatya, Aroh Hoppe, U. P. Friedrich, M. 1394807 2013-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://commons.erau.edu/publication/656 https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-31-187-2013 https://commons.erau.edu/context/publication/article/1741/viewcontent/Barjatya___Payload_charging_events_in_the_mesophere.pdf unknown Scholarly Commons https://commons.erau.edu/publication/656 doi:10.5194/angeo-31-187-2013 https://commons.erau.edu/context/publication/article/1741/viewcontent/Barjatya___Payload_charging_events_in_the_mesophere.pdf Publications Ionosphere (Instruments and techniques) – Space plasma physics (Numerical simulation studies Spacecraft sheaths wakes charging) Aerospace Engineering Physics text 2013 ftembryriddleaun https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-31-187-2013 2023-09-02T19:05:51Z Three sounding rockets were launched from Andøya Rocket Range in the ECOMA campaign in December 2010. The aim was to study the evolution of meteoric smoke particles during a major meteor shower. Of the various instruments onboard the rocket payload, this paper presents the data from a multi-Needle Langmuir Probe (m-NLP) and a charged dust detector. The payload floating potential, as observed using the m-NLP instrument, shows charging events on two of the three flights. These charging events cannot be explained using a simple charging model, and have implications towards the use of fixed bias Langmuir probes on sounding rockets investigating mesospheric altitudes. We show that for a reliable use of a single fixed bias Langmuir probe as a high spatial resolution relative density measurement, each payload should also carry an additional instrument to measure payload floating potential, and an instrument that is immune to spacecraft charging and measures absolute plasma density. Text Andøya Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: ERAU Scholarly Commons Andøya ENVELOPE(13.982,13.982,68.185,68.185) Langmuir ENVELOPE(-67.150,-67.150,-66.967,-66.967) Annales Geophysicae 31 2 187 196 |
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Three sounding rockets were launched from Andøya Rocket Range in the ECOMA campaign in December 2010. The aim was to study the evolution of meteoric smoke particles during a major meteor shower. Of the various instruments onboard the rocket payload, this paper presents the data from a multi-Needle Langmuir Probe (m-NLP) and a charged dust detector. The payload floating potential, as observed using the m-NLP instrument, shows charging events on two of the three flights. These charging events cannot be explained using a simple charging model, and have implications towards the use of fixed bias Langmuir probes on sounding rockets investigating mesospheric altitudes. We show that for a reliable use of a single fixed bias Langmuir probe as a high spatial resolution relative density measurement, each payload should also carry an additional instrument to measure payload floating potential, and an instrument that is immune to spacecraft charging and measures absolute plasma density. |
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Payload Charging Events in the Mesosphere and Their Impact on Langmuir Type Electric Probes |
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