NASA-HDBK-4002A Mitigating In-Space Charging Effects - a Guideline

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This Technical Handbook approved by NASA March 03, 2011. Superseding NASA-HDBK-4002. — 181 p.This Handbook is intended to describe conditions under which spacecraft charging might be an issue, generally explain why the problem exists, list typical design solutions, and provide an introduction to the process by which design specifics should be resolved.
This document is also intended to be an engineering tool, and is written at the graduate engineering level for use by aerospace engineers, system designers, program managers, and others concerned with space environment effects on spacecraft. Much of the environmental data and material response information has been adapted from published and unpublished scientific literature for use in this document. It is not possible to place all the necessary knowledge into one document to be used as a cookbook; therefore, this document should be used as a preliminary reference and/or checklist only, primarily to identify if spacecraft charging is an issue for a particular mission