Potential of earth orbiting spacecraft influenced by meteoroid hypervelocity impacts

J Vaverka, A Pellinen-Wannberg, J Kero… - … on Plasma Science, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Detection of hypervelocity impacts on a spacecraft body using electric field instruments has
been established as a new method for monitoring of dust grains in our solar system …

Dust detection in space using the monopole and dipole electric field antennas

SY Ye, WS Kurth, GB Hospodarsky… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
During the grand finale of the Cassini mission, the Radio and Plasma Wave Science
instrument will be used to assess the risk involved in exposing the instruments to the dusty …

Impact-induced ESD and EMI/EMP effects on spacecraft—A review

HB Garrett, S Close - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies have indicated that the effects of meteoroid and debris impacts on spacecraft
are not being adequately considered in spacecraft design. They imply that electrical effects …

Interpreting dust impact signals detected by the STEREO spacecraft

E O'Shea, Z Sternovsky… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is no comprehensive understanding yet of how dust impacts on spacecraft (SC)
generate signals detected by antenna instruments. The high sensitivity of the S/WAVES …

Detection of meteoroid hypervelocity impacts on the Cluster spacecraft: First results

J Vaverka, A Pellinen‐Wannberg, J Kero… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present the first study of dust impact events on one of the Earth‐orbiting Cluster
satellites. The events were identified in the measurements of the wide band data (WBD) …

The effects of solar cycle variability on nanodust dynamics in the inner heliosphere: Predictions for future STEREO A/WAVES measurements

AR Poppe, CO Lee - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The collisional grinding of interplanetary meteoroids should continually produce grains over
a wide range of sizes, including down to the nanometer‐size regime. Once generated …

Comets as a possible source of nanodust in the Solar System cloud and in planetary debris discs

I Mann - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Comets, comet-like objects and their fragments are the most plausible source for the dust in
both the inner heliosphere and planetary debris discs around other stars. The smallest size …

Ion Cloud Expansion after Hyper-velocity Dust Impacts Detected by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Electric Probes in the Dipole Configuration

J Vaverka, J Pavlů, L Nouzák… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Dust impact detection by electric field instruments is a well-established technique. On the
other hand, not all aspects of signal generation by dust impacts are completely understood …

Electron density inside Enceladus plume inferred from plasma oscillations excited by dust impacts

SY Ye, DA Gurnett, WS Kurth… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Enceladus' southern plume is one of the major discoveries of the Cassini mission. The water
neutrals and water ice particles (dust) ejected by the cryovolcanic activity populate Saturn's …

On the unconstrained expansion of a spherical plasma cloud turning collisionless: Case of a cloud generated by a nanometre dust grain impact on an uncharged …

F Pantellini, S Landi, A Zaslavsky… - Plasma Physics and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Nano and micrometre sized dust particles travelling through the heliosphere at several
hundreds of km s− 1 have been repeatedly detected by interplanetary spacecraft. When …