Propellantless spin-up of tethered or electromagnetically coupled sparse apertures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4849, Issue , 2002, Pages 193-204

  Sedwick, Raymond J ^a   Schweighart, Samuel A ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic formation flight; Interferometry; Propellantless propulsion; Sparse apertures; Tethers

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; PROPELLANTS; PROPULSION; SPACECRAFT; TETHERLINES; TORQUE;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; SPARSE APERTURES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0038304468     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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