aerospace environment, solar array, damage, sustained arc, spacecraft power supply, electrostatic discharge, electrical insulation, insulator, space plasma, charged particle, electric charge, electric conductor
その他のタイトル(英)
Characteristics of sustained arcing discharges between wires in vacuum
Nara National College of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering
Nara National College of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering
出版者
宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究本部
出版者(英)
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA/ISAS)
雑誌名
第27回宇宙エネルギーシンポジウム 平成19年度
雑誌名(英)
The Twenty-seventh Space Energy Symposium
ページ
59 - 63
発行年
2008-05
抄録(英)
The anomaly of Japanese satellite ADEOS-2 (ADvanced Earth Observing Satellite-2: Midori-2) appeared in 2003 is supposed to be caused by arcing discharges initiated due to ESD (ElectroStatic Discharge) in the bundled wire-harnesses of the solar paddle. In order to make the conditions of the occurrence of the discharge clear, it is necessary to evaluate the arcing discharge characteristics in vacuum quantitatively. Therefore we tried to investigate the characteristics of arcing discharges between two exposed conductors consisting of a pair of insulating wires for space use. The discharges were triggered by ESD released from a capacitor. These characteristics were obtained as parameters of the amplitude of ESD, the pressure in the chamber, the direction of the current flowing the conductor and so on. We obtained the result that the arcing discharge time increased with the amplitude of the ESD and the time is affected by the magnetic field formed between the conductors by the current flowing the conductor itself.