Negative shuttle charging during TSS 1R

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 433-436

  Gentile, L C ^a   Burke, W J ^b   Huang, C Y ^a   Machuzak, J S ^b   Hardy, D A ^b   Olson, D G ^b   Gilchrist, B E ^c   Lebreton, J P ^d   Bonifazi, C ^e  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^e ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRONS; IONOSPHERE; PLASMAS; SPACE SHUTTLES; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; RESISTORS;

IONOSPHERIC DENSITY; NEGATIVE SHUTTLE CHARGING; SHUTTLE POTENTIAL; TETHERED SATELLITE SYSTEMS (TSS);

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; TETHERLINES;

DENSITY GRADIENTS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; LOW DENSITY; SPECTRAL PEAK; TETHER CURRENT; TETHER LENGTHS; THRUSTER FIRINGS;

EID: 0032002964     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03001     Document Type: Article

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