Performance and dynamics of an electrodynamic tether

38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Estes, Robert D ^a   Lorenzini, Enrico C ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

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