Shuttle charging by fixed energy beam emissions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 725-728

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

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^f ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE SHUTTLES; TETHERLINES; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

FAST PULSED ELECTRON GUN (FPEG); SHUTTLE CHARGING; TETHERED SATELLITE SYSTEM (TSS);

IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; TETHERLINES;

ELECTRON BEAM EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; FIXED ENERGY; NOMINAL CURRENTS; PULSED ELECTRON;

EID: 0032028278     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03190     Document Type: Article

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