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Radiation Effects on Spacecraft and Countermeasures

This presentation discusses the observed effects of radiation on spacecraft, including documented effects and predicted effects. It also explores countermeasures to mitigate these effects. The presentation provides insights into the origin, cause, and effects of radiation on both payload and platform, as well as tools for evaluation and radiation analysis.

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Radiation Effects on Spacecraft and Countermeasures

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  1. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft and Countermeasures Selected Cases Wolfgang Keil EADS ASTRIUM GmbH Friedrichshafen 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  2. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft OBSERVED EFFECTS (selected cases) • Documented Effects Data • Predicted Effects • Manifested Effects • Temporary Effects COUNTERMEASURES • Origin (Environment, Source Term) • Cause (Failure Mechanism) • Effects on S/C • Tools for Evaluation of Source Term and Effects • Radiation behavior on: • Payload • Platform • Countermeasures by Design • Radiation Analysis (criticality analysis) on unit/system level • Selection of hardened electronic parts and materials • Implementation of EDAC, TMR, etc. • Countermeasures by Operational Measures Page 1 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  3. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • At industry limited data is collected and evaluated on S/C behavior in orbit. • Information on in orbit performance is mainly at space operation centres (e. g. ESOC) or at Institutes (PI). • Lessons learned is a product assurance task (alerts, warning notes issuing dept. ) Page 2 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  4. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Documented Data on Observed Effects due to Space Environment • excellent overview but fairly old status from 1996: NASA-RP-1390, “Spacecraft System Failures and Anomalies Attributed to the Natural Space Environment” or: http://www.sat-index.com (satellite news digest) Page 3 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  5. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • SELECTED CASES • Predicted Effects • Manifested Effects: • Solar cell degradation (e. g. CLUSTER, XMM) • Temporary Effects • Startracker behaviour (e.g. ROSETTA) • Bit flips and EDAC behaviour (e.g. mass memory, CLUSTER SSR) • Measured data on SREM (e.g. ROSETTA) Page 4 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  6. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Predicted Effects: ECSS-E-10-04A, ECSS-E-10-12A draft, Source Term and Effects: Tools: e.g. SPENVIS, CREME96 Cosmic ray LET spectra for typical missions Page 5 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  7. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Origin of Effect: SPE: 14/15 July 2000, the Proton flux has not significantly exceeded the 1989 design flare, for >10 MeV its 24000 pfu is less than 40000 pfu in maximum (1989 flare), Particle Flux Units (pfu)=1p+ cm-2 sr-1 s-1 Page 6 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  8. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Manifested Effects: XMM-Newton (Solar Cells) Page 7 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  9. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Manifested Effects:CLUSTER (Solar Cells), Degradation BOL (16 July 2000) to July 2005 ~14.8%, <5%/y; Differences in solar arrays (4 S/C) Origin: Sept. 01 SPE Page 8 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  10. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • SPE Sept. 2001, origin for CLUSTER solar cell degradation Page 9 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  11. SC 4: 2001 Proton storms SC 4: 2003 10000 proton flux SEUs 1000 100 10 Radiation Effects on Spacecraft● Temporary Effects: CLUSTER, courtesy ESOC/J. Volpp, L.Jagger Page 10 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  12. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Temporary Effects: ROSETTA • The solar flare on 8/9 Sept. 05, hit the spacecraft at the beginning of the weekly non-coverage period. When the signal was acquired for the weekly contact on 15 Sept. the spacecraft was found with the active Star Tracker crashed in INIT mode, and the second Star Tracker (not used for attitude control) in Standby mode. • AOCS had determined the attitude over a period of 6 days using gyroscopes only, and accumulated therefore a drift of about 0.7 degrees, of which 0.3 degrees offset in the High Gain Antenna pointing direction, small enough to allow the RF signal to be received on ground. The recovery activities took most of the ground station pass on 15 Sept. At the end both Star Trackers were back in tracking mode and the nominal attitude reacquired. Page 11 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  13. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft●Temporary Effects: ROSETTA Position - SREM Measurements at 1.23-1.6 AU MARS EARTH 30° behind Earth ROSETTA Page 12 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  14. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft●Temporary Effects: ROSETTA SREM Measurements Rosetta SREM vs. GOES proton data, solar event of 8 September 2005 SREM on Rosetta GOES courtesy P. Nieminen, ESTEC Page 13 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  15. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • COUNTERMEASURES • Detailed knowledge necessary on: • Origin (environment, source term) • Cause (failure mechanism) • Total Ionizing Dose (TID) • Single Event Effects (SEU, SEL, SEGR, SEB) • Displacement Effects • Effects on S/C • S/C Design (specified materials, functions and reliability goal) • Tools for Evaluation of Source Term, & Effects (e.g. SPENVIS , CREME96, GEANT4) Page 14 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  16. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Radiation Damage on Semiconductor Page 15 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  17. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Proton Interaction Page 16 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  18. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Interaction with galactic cosmic rays and Si (ions) Page 17 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  19. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Bit flip in Memory Cell (SEU) Page 18 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  20. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Latch up Page 19 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  21. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Displacement Effects (e. g. solar cell, opt.) • Nonionising energy loss (NIEL) manifesting in lattice defects • Lattice defects by ejection of atoms from their equilibrium position due to incident particles with suitable kinetic energy • Knocked out atom position may be taken by the displacing ion • Affected electrical parameters: leakage current, conductivity, mobility of carriers Page 20 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  22. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Radiation Sensitivity of Parts • (insensitive, LU immune) • CMOS (SOS/SOI) • CMOS • APS • Standard bipolar (bad low dose rate performance, some degrade unbiased) • Low power Schottky bipolar • NMOS DRAMs • CCD (ideal particle counter, SOHO) • (highest sensitivity) Page 21 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  23. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Radiation response behavior differentiation to aim at: • Payload Functionality • Experiments (affected sensitivity), • Instruments (laser crystal), • Sensors (CCD, APS, HgCdTe), • Windows (glass) • Platform System Functionality • Power subsystem (solar cell) • Avionics (startracker), • Propulsion, • OBDH (mass memory), • TM&TC, • Thermal subsystem (a/e -degradation) Page 22 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

  24. Radiation Effects on Spacecraft • Countermeasures by Design • Selection of hardened electronic parts and materials • Irradiation Tests (total dose, SEU tests) • Implementation of shielding (intelligent selection of absorbing material) • Implementation of EDAC, TMR, filters etc. • Redundancy of boards, units (not useful for weak devices) • Countermeasures by Operational Measures • Operational concept (e. g. XMM) (not available for SW events) • Enhancement of S/C simulator to take into account Space Weather scenario for safeguarding Page 23 2nd European Space Weather Week - Presentation_Keil.ppt - 17 Oct 2005

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