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Satellite Applications Handbook: The Complete Guide to Satellite Communications, Remote Sensing, Navigation, and Meteorology Read chapter Read first chapter

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Space Weather and Hazards to Application Satellites

Author : Dr. Michael J. Rycroft

Published in: Handbook of Satellite Applications

Publisher: Springer New York

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Abstract

Magnetic activity on the Sun causes disturbances moving out through interplanetary space as a stronger than usual solar wind. Enhanced solar activity can also produce large fluxes of penetrating energetic protons of great destructive potential. When either of these phenomena arrives near the Earth and strikes a satellite or spacecraft, damage is likely to be done, either directly and indirectly. Here we give an overview of the several different effects which occur in low Earth orbit (LEO), in medium Earth orbit (MEO), and in geostationary orbit (GEO) as well as in high inclination elliptical Earth orbits where positioning satellites are located.

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Metadata
Title
Space Weather and Hazards to Application Satellites
Author
Dr. Michael J. Rycroft
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer New York
Book
Handbook of Satellite Applications

Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-7670-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4419-7671-0

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7671-0_78

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