session 3

Title

Predicting, testing, and measuring the effects of the space environment on space missions

type

oral

Description

The space environment can strongly impact the performance and reliability of space missions. It has several natural and induced components, including high-energy radiation, plasma, atomic oxygen, planetary dust, extreme temperature, vacuum, microgravity, micrometeoroid and debris, and molecular and particulate contamination. Environmental conditions yield constraints at the design phase, and important risks in the course of the mission. The evaluation of the nominal and worst-case conditions to be met, mitigation and protection options, and of their impact on missions and flight systems are thus of prime importance. This session will encompass space weather, plasma, spacecraft charging, radiation, atomic oxygen, planetary dust, molecular and particulate contamination, plume-induced contamination effects and interactions, and combined environments such as flight measurements, physical processes, prediction of nominal or worst case condition, ground testing, flight experiments and lessons learned, modeling and prediction, and thermos-optical degradation effects.

Date

2023-10-05

Time

10:15

Room

BCC A4

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Mr. Henry de Plinval, Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France;

• Co-Chair: Dr. Teppei Okumura, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan;

• Rapporteur: Mr. Carlos Soares, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States;