RESEARCH OF ELECTRIC DISCHARGE PROCESSES IN THE ISS PLASMA ENVIRONMENT. THE SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT TO STUDY OF GAS-PLASMA ENVIRONMENT - ARGO

RESEARCH OF ELECTRIC DISCHARGE PROCESSES IN THE ISS PLASMA ENVIRONMENT. THE SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT TO STUDY OF GAS-PLASMA ENVIRONMENT - ARGO

V.A. Gaponov
Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC), Head of Department, Tikhoretsky, 21, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-03-55, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

S.S. Kavtrev
RTC, Leading Designer, Tikhoretsky, 21, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-03-55, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

B.A. Rabinovich
RTC, Leading Electronics Engineer, Tikhoretsky, 21, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-03-55

A.V. Khokhlov
RTC, Designer, Tikhoretsky, 21, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, tel.:+7(812)552-03-55, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A.G. Korsun
Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMash), Chief Specialist, Pionerskaya 4, Korolev, Russia, tel.: +7(495)513-45-86, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A.A. Sizov
TsNIIMash, Head of Laboratory, Pionerskaya 4, Korolev, Russia, tel.: +7(495)513-45-86, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

E.M. Tverdokhlebova
PhD in Technical Sciences, TsNIIMash, Head of Laboratory, Pionerskaya 4, Korolev, Russia, tel.: +7(495)513-45-86, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

R.W. Orlow
PhD in Technical Sciences, TsNIIMash, Leading Researcher, Pionerskaya 4, Korolev, Russia, tel.: +7(495)513-45-86, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


Abstract
Electric discharge processes occurring in plasma environment of spacecrafts can impact on the work of various spacecraft systems. Information about parameters of these processes and its influence on a spacecraft that we have today is not enough. To study both the depending of plasma environment parameters on geophysical and orbital conditions and the effects of interaction between a spacecraft and plasma environment the space experiment «Plasma-ERP» was planned onboard the Russian segment of the International Space Station (RS ISS). To realize the experiment the scientific equipment «ARGO» is under development.

Key words
Spacecraft, scientific equipment «ARGO», plasma environment, discharge, space experiment.

Year 2014 Issue number 2 Consecutive issue number 3 Pages 61-66
UDC identifier: 533.9.082:629.786.2

 

 

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