The report examines the feasibility of neutralizing the potential difference that occurs on a spacecraft by emitting ions from the positively charged surface region of the spacecraft and lefting this current impact on the negatively charged surface region. The investigation was performed by making two different simplfying assumptions about the geometry of the problem. In the first case we approximated the geometry by two conducting infinite half planes. In the ...
The work reported in this note was done for the purpose of determining the feasibility of neutralizing the potential difference that occurs on a spacecraft. It has been proposed that neutralization can be accomplished by emitting ions from the positively charged surface region of the spacecraft and by letting this current impact on the negatively charged surface region. In order to investigate the main features of the proposed scheme, we ...
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