1.5 The Space Environment
Overview
Overview
- Students under the definitions and concepts of gravity, electromagnetic radiation, atmospheric particles, cosmic radiation, plasma, micrometeoroids, solar wind particles, the space vacuum, and planetary surface albedo, and their potential effects on spacecraft.
- Students understand how these natural phenomena affect the requirements of CubeSat design materials.
- Students understand how these natural phenomena put constraints on payloads.
- Students understand how these natural phenomena put requirements on attitude control.
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