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The results of laboratory experiments on the neutralization of electrostatic charge on elements of the outer surfaces of high-orbit spacecraft are described. The charge is neutralized by the action of a flux of cold plasma ions on the material of the surface. It is established that the charge is completely neutralized for all types of studied materials when the ratio of the ion current of cold plasma to the electron current of hot space plasma is within 0.25–1.0.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Chirov, A.B. Nadiradze, V.V. Shaposhnikov, 2014, published in Poverkhnost’. Rentgenovskie, Sinkhrotronnye i Neitronnye Issledovaniya, 2014, No. 7, pp. 74–82.
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Chirov, A.A., Nadiradze, A.B. & Shaposhnikov, V.V. Neutralization of electrostatic charge on spacecraft surfaces by fluxes of cold plasma ions. J. Surf. Investig. 8, 689–697 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S102745101404003X
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