Lecture 2: Space Environment

Author: Fadri, [email protected] Date: 18.09.2024 Exercise: Exercise 1: Space Environment (GH) Lecturer: Simon Stähler Reading Ass: 7 Summaries: Space Environment (../../Space%20Environment%2016b607ce73f880f684f0cfacb5df8eac.md)

Content Summary

We discuss the environment in which spacecraft operate.

1. Solar Activity
2. Earth’s Magnetic Field
3. Radiation
4. Vacuum
5. Microgravity

Learning Outcomes

1. Key challenges of the space environment for spacecraft design
2. Temporal and spatial distribution of various challenges
3. Estimate effects of the space environment to first order
4. Be prepared for orbit design lecture