Unclassified Spacecraft charging Environmental modeling Plasma interactions Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (PIIG) Hanscom AFB Massachusetts 01731 MODELING OF THE GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT PLASMA ENVIRONMENT - PART I 76610801 62101F 14 December 1977 Although the role of the environment in generating spacecraft potential variations at geosynchronous orbit is well documented, variations in the ambient environment itself have not been well-defined. Similarly, no studies of the environment have attempted an analytic formulation of the various parameters needed to model the spacecraft charging phenomenon. This paper describes the parameters needed to formulate such a model and outlines a systematic procedure for constructing a simple analytic model that includes
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