该标准是ECSS层次结构中的标准。它是ECSS系统（ECSS-E）工程分支的电气和电子工程学科（ECSS-E-ST-20）的一部分。它为应用评估措施提供了清晰一致的规定，以避免和尽量减少航天器充电所造成的危险影响和对航天器电气行为的其他环境影响。 本标准适用于任何类型的航天器，包括发射器，高于大气层。 虽然航天器系统在仍然在地球上（例如闪电和静电来自处理）明显受到电气相互作用的影响，但这些方面并不涵盖，因为它们是地面系统的常见并在其他地方覆盖。相反，该标准涵盖在空间中发生的电气效应（即从电离层向上）。 该标准可以针对符合ECSS-S-ST-00的空间项目的具体特征和限制

This standard is a standard within the ECSS hierarchy. It forms part of the electrical and electronic engineering discipline (ECSS-E-ST-20) of the engineering branch of the ECSS system (ECSS-E). It provides clear and consistent provisions to the application of measures to assess, in order to avoid and minimize hazardous effects arising from spacecraft charging and other environmental effects on a spacecraft’s electrical behaviour. This standard is applicable to any type of spacecraft including launchers, when above the atmosphere. Although spacecraft systems are clearly subject to electrical interactions while still on Earth (e.g. lightning and static electricity from handling), these aspects are not covered, since they are common to terrestrial systems and covered elsewhere. Instead this standard covers electrical effects occurring in space (i.e. from the ionosphere upwards). This standard may be tailored for the specific characteristic and constrains of a space project in conformance with ECSS-S-ST-00.