Atmospheric Remnants in the Low Earth Orbit Region around 200 km Altitude

Konstantinos Katsonis¹, Chloe Berenguer¹, José Gonzalez del Amo², Constantinos Stavrinidis²

¹DEDALOS Ltd., Thessaloniki, Greece.
²ESTEC, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

DOI: 10.4236/wjet.2015.33C004                

Abstract

Study of atmospheric remnants in the low Earth orbit region (~200 km altitude) using Global Models, with application to electric thrusters of in situ resources utilization type.

Keywords

Atmospheric Composition, Low Earth Orbit, Air-Breathing, Global Modeling

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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