High Power Laser and Particle Beams, Volume. 36, Issue 1, 014002(2024)

Numerical simulation on spacecraft chargingdue to electron beam emission

Sanhai Ren1, Kai Peng2、*, Qian Tan1, Xin Ye1, and Jinyong Fang2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications Technology, Beijing 100094, China
  • 2China Academy of Space Technology (Xi’an), Xi’an 710100, China)
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    Figures & Tables(5)
    Program flow chart
    Schematic diagram of negative potential charging (slowing down) vs different emission currents
    Schematic diagram of the initial positive potential spacecraft charging balance potential with the emitted current
    GEO spacecraft potential vs time when emission stops at 2 ms
    • Table 1. Environmental particle flow of a spherical spacecraft with a radius of 1m vs spacecraft potential (assuming that the ion is proton)

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      Table 1. Environmental particle flow of a spherical spacecraft with a radius of 1m vs spacecraft potential (assuming that the ion is proton)

      spacecraft potential/kVenvironmental electron current density/(A·m−2)environmental electron current/µAenvironmental ion current density/(A·m−2)environmental ion current/µA
      −1000~00$ {\text{2}}{\text{.1}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - 4}} $670.00
      −100~00$ {\text{2}}{\text{.1}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{5}}}} $67.60
      −10$ {\text{7}}{\text{.2}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{11}}}} $0$ {\text{2}}{\text{.3}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{6}}}} $7.30
      −1$ {\text{2}}{\text{.5}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{6}}}} $31$ {\text{4}}{\text{.0}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{7}}}} $1.20
      0$ {\text{7}}{\text{.9}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{6}}}} $100$ {\text{1}}{\text{.8}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{7}}}} $0.58
      1$ {\text{1}}{\text{.7}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{5}}}} $210$ {\text{5}}{\text{.8}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{8}}}} $0.18
      10$ {\text{1}}{\text{.0}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{4}}}} $1200$ {\text{1}}{\text{.7}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{12}}}} $~0
      100$ {\text{9}}{\text{.2}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{4}}}} $1160~0~0
      1000$ {\text{9}}{\text{.1}} \times {\text{1}}{{\text{0}}^{ - {\text{3}}}} $11000~0~0
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    Received: Oct. 22, 2023

    Accepted: Dec. 10, 2023

    Published Online: Mar. 21, 2024

    The Author Email: Peng Kai (pengkaicast@163.com)

    DOI:10.11884/HPLPB202436.230366

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