HTS bearings for space applications: Reaction wheel with low power consumption for mini-satellites

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 2275-2278

  Ma, Ki B ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a   Postrekhin, Yevgeniy ^a   Chu, Wei Kan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude control; Low power consumption; Reaction wheel; Superconductor magnet bearings

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; MAGNETIC BEARINGS; SATELLITES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

REACTION WHEEL SYSTEMS;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0042466179     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.813064     Document Type: Article

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