3-D time-dependent simulations of the tethered satellite-ionosphere interaction

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 737-740

  Ma, T Z ^a   Schunk, R W ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT COLLECTION; GEOMAGNETISM; IONOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES; TETHERLINES; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

TETHERED SATELLITE IONOSPHERE INTERACTION; TETHERED SATELLITE SYSTEM (TSS);

PLASMA INTERACTIONS; SATELLITES;

EQUATORIAL PLANES; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; POTENTIAL STRUCTURE; REPRESENTATIVE VALUES; SATELLITE MOTIONS; TETHERED SATELLITE; THIN CYLINDRICAL SHELL; TIME DEPENDENT SIMULATION;

EID: 0032028279     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03223     Document Type: Article

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