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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2008
Applicant:
Gregory G. Spanjers, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Inventor:
Gregory G. Spanjers, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/54 (2006.01); B64G 1/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method whereby one or more conducting plates electrically-biased negatively with respect to a spacecraft's electrical potential and insulated from the spacecraft surface are located around the spacecraft surface whereby contaminant ions in a plasma surrounding the spacecraft are attracted to and accelerated through the conducting plates electric potential, caused to collide with the conductive surface, neutralized through collisions with surface atoms, and then reflected away from the spacecraft as neutral atoms or molecules.