SPACECRAFT-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS 1st Edition

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Spacecraft interact with the space environment in ways that may affect the operation of the spacecraft as well as any scientific experiments that are carried out from the spacecraft platform. In turn the study of these interactions provides information on the space environment. The adverse environmental effects, such as the effect of the radiation belts on electronics, and spacecraft charging from the magnetospheric plasma, mean that designers need to understand interactive phenomena to be able to design spacecraft effectively. This development has led to the new discipline of spacecraft-environment interaction. The emphasis in this book is on the fundamental physics of these interactions. Spacecraft Environment Interactions will be a valuable introduction to the subject for spacecraft systems engineers as well as all students and researchers interested in the application of fluid, gas, plasma and particle dynamics to spacecraft.