著者

石川 芳男 井上 正史 小宅 康博 山極 芳樹 栗木 恭一

出版者

一般社団法人 日本航空宇宙学会

雑誌

日本航空宇宙学会誌 (ISSN:00214663)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.41, no.471, pp.205-212, 1993-04-05 (Released:2010-12-16)

参考文献数

9

被引用文献数

1 1

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In coming new space age, we will have frequent trips between the ground and mission orbits by large rockets to realize the large projects such as space stations and solar power satellite systems. In such cases a great deal of rocket effluents should be released in the atomosphere. But, its effects on our environment is still unknown, and therefore various studies on these problems are expected. About such environmental problems, some studies were performed which motivated by so called “ionospheric hole” observed when Skylab-I was launched, May 14, 1973. It was certified by later scientific studies that the phenomenon was caused by the chemical reaction between rocket effluents and ionized particles in the ionosphere, by which the electron density of the ionosphere suddenly decreased to about a half values of that in its normal state in the range of about 1, 000km in radius centering about rocket trajectory and it took about 4 hours to recover. In this study, the results of these fundamental studies are applied to the engineering problem, that is, the numerical simulation of the change in electron density in the ionosphere is carried out in consideration of the diffusion of rocket effluents released along arbitrary trajectory in upper atomosphere and their chemical reactions with the ionospheric constituents.