Download or read book Natural Orbital Environment Guidelines for Use in Aerospace Vehicle Development written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document provides definitions of the natural near-Earth space environment suitable for use in the initial development/design phase of any space vehicle. The natural environment includes the neutral atmosphere, plasma, charged particle radiation, electromagnetic radiation (EMR), meteoroids, orbital debris, magnetic field, physical and thermal constants, and gravitational field. Communications and other unmanned satellites operate in geosynchronous-Earth orbit (GEO); therefore, some data are given for GEO, but emphasis is on altitudes from 200 km to 1000 km (low-Earth orbit (LEO)). This document does not cover the induced environment of other effects resulting from presence of the space vehicle. Manmade factors are included as part of the ambient natural environment; i.e., orbital debris and radio frequency (RF) noise generated on Earth, because they are not caused by the presence of the space vehicle but form part of the ambient environment that the space vehicle experiences. Anderson, B. Jeffrey (Editor) and Smith, Robert E. (Compiler) Marshall Space Flight Center AEROSPACE VEHICLES; EARTH IONOSPHERE; EARTH ORBITAL ENVIRONMENTS; GEOPHYSICS; METEOROIDS; SATELLITE DESIGN; SPACE DEBRIS; THERMOSPHERE; CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; LOW EARTH ORBITS; NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERES; PLASMA RADIATION; RADIO FREQUENCIES...