Improvement of the Electrical Potential Distribution on the Surface Geostationary Satellites using Material Change

The main objective of this research is to improve the distribution of electrical potential on spacecraft surfaces by changing the surface coatings to reduce the risk of electrostatic discharge in the spacecraft. For this purpose, SPIS software, the EU standard software for modeling and simulating the interaction of space plasma with the spacecraft is used. The spacecraft has 8 nodes, and each node is related to a particular substance. The simulations were compared with the variation in the materials of these nodes in terms of differential electric and floating potential. Investigating materials that differed in the differential electric potential of zero showed that they are conductive materials. In order to choose among several conductive materials, these materials were compared in terms of electric floating potential. Simulations on satellite surfaces showed an average of 11% improvement in the electrical potential on surfaces