Accession Number:

AD0607761

Title:

ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE OF A ROCKET-BORNE RETARDING POTENTIAL ANALYZER.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

AMERICAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING INC CAMBRIDGE MASS

Personal Author(s):

• Manley,Oscar P.

Report Date:

1964-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

43.0

Abstract:

The use of a rocket-borne retarding potential analyzer RSHOWN THAT AT THE ALTITUDES OF INTEREST 40 to 90 km shock ionization induced by the nose-cone may exceed ambient ionization. Moreover, the positive ion current measured by means of the RPA is not linearly dependent on the ion density at present, the precise functional dependence between the two quantities cannot be established analytically. Author

Descriptors:

• (*IONIZATION POTENTIALS
• IONOSPHERE)
• (*IONOSPHERE
• GAS IONIZATION)
• (*GAS IONIZATION
• MEASUREMENT)
• SPACEBORNE
• IONS
• IONIC CURRENT
• DENSITY
• ELECTRON DENSITY
• ELECTROSTATICS
• AERODYNAMIC HEATING
• SHOCK WAVES
• VELOCITY
• PLASMA SHEATHS
• MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
• ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING

Subject Categories:

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE