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A new satellite is placed into geostationary orbit and successfully commissioned (geosynchronous = orbital period of 24 hours, while geostationary additionally requires the orbit to be circular with 0° inclination). All goes well for a month or so but then the mission controllers are confronted by a number of abnormal situations which are generally classified as ‘Operational Anomalies’. For example, on-board systems suddenly change state (maybe turn ON or OFF), housekeeping telemetry channels exhibit out-of-limit values for no obvious reason, attitude control systems and instruments with stepping sequences misbehave.
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Wrenn, G.L., Sims, A.J. (1993). Surface Charging of Spacecraft in Geosynchronous Orbit. In: DeWitt, R.N., Duston, D., Hyder, A.K. (eds) The Behavior of Systems in the Space Environment. NATO ASI Series, vol 245. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2048-7_21
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