Modeling of probe measurements of plasma environment parameters onboard the spacecraft «Sich-2»

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Space and Atmospheric Physics
1Shuvalov, VA, 2Korepanov, VE, 2Lukenyuk, AA, 1Tokmak, NA, 3Kochubey, GS
1Institute of Technical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Dnipro, Ukraine
2L’viv Centre of the Space Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the State Space Agency of Ukraine, L’viv, Ukraine
3Institute of Technical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Kosm. nauka tehnol. 2012, 18 ;(6):05–13
https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2012.06.005
Publication Language: Russian
Abstract: 
We developed a procedure for the numerical and physical (set) modeling of the probe measurements of environment parameters for the spacecraft «Sich-2». A correlation between the calculated and measured values of the equilibrium potential of the insulated sphere (EZ probe) testifies that the modeling procedure is correct and the precision of the determination of electron temperature and plasma environment concentration in the polar orbit of the spacecraft «Sich-2» is acceptable
Keywords: electron temperature and concentration, environment parameters, set modeling
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