Radiation effect for a CubeSat in slow transition from the Earth to the Moon》.pdf

Available online at ScienceDirect Advances in Space Research 55 (2015) 1792–1798 /locate/asr Radiation effect for a CubeSat in slow transition from the Earth to the Moon Yuchul Shin, Seyoung Yoon, Yongmyung Seo, Ho Jin, Jongho Seon ⇑ School of Space Research Insitute of Natural Sciences, Kyung Hee University, 1732, Deogyeong-daero, Giheung-gu, Yongin-Si, Gyeong-Gi 446-701, Republic of Korea Received 21 October 2014; received in revised form 19 January 2015; accepted 20 January 2015 Available online 30 January 2015 Abstract A slow spiral transfer from the Earth to the Moon is calculated for the estimation of the total ionizing dose contributed from the Earth’s radiation belts and energetic interplanetary solar protons. The Lagrange planetary equations are employed to calculate the evo- lution of the initial orbital parameters due to the thrust forces of the spacecraft. The trajectories from the equations are used for the numerical modeling of the populations of energetic particles in the radiation belts and interplanetary space. Transportation of these par- ticles across model spacecraft indicated that an initial eccentric orbit, with periapsis and apoapsis corresponding to the low-altitude and geostationary orbit, slowly traverses the Earth’s intense radiation belts. This traversal of the Earth’s radiation belt dominantly determi- nes the expected amount of ionizing dose with a significantly smaller contribution from the