COMPARISON OF CYLINDRICAL ELECTROSTATIC PROBE MEASUREMENTS ON ALOUETTE 2 AND EXPLORER 31 SATELLITES

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BRACE, LH
FINDLAY, JA
机构
[1] Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt
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10.1109/PROC.1969.7153
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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The Alouette II and Explorer XXXI satellites were placed in orbit by a single launch vehicle and separated. Cylindrical electrostatic probes of identical design were installed on each satellite in part to test the effects of the long sounder antennas and large radio-frequency radio-frequency power on Alouette upon direct measurements of the thermal electrons and ions. Comparisons of the early data taken when the satellites were separated less than 1000 km along their common orbit, suggest that there is no inherent incompatibility between the sounder experiment and direct measurement experiments. The electron temperature T. and concentration N derived from the two experiments generally agree to better than 10 percent although unexplained differences of up to 15 percent in T and 40 percent in N have been found on rare occasions. Copyright © 1969 by The Inshtute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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