MAGNETOSPHERIC-IONOSPHERIC CHANGESCAUSED BY FLIGHTS OF SPACE VEHICLES
S. A. Ishanova, E. I. Levanovb, V. V. Medvedeva, V. A. Zalesskayaa, and Yu. S. Zharkovaa UDC 622.276 The process of formation and disappearance of an ionospheric "hole" in the F2 layer caused by the ejection of water molecules during the flight of a space vehicle has been considered using the method of computational experiment based on the mathematical ionospheric-magnetospheric model in a coordinate system fixed on the magnetic force line of the Earth. aI. Kant Russian State University, 14 Nevskii Str., Kaliningrad (region), 236041, Russia; bInstitute of Mathematical Modeling, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 6, pp. 11-15, November-December, 2006. Original article submitted January 26, 2006.