Electrodynamic tethers for spacecraft propulsion

36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Johnson, Les ^a   Estes, Robert D ^b   Lorenzini, Enrico ^b   Martinez Sanchez, Manuel ^c   Sanmartin, Juan ^d   Vas, Irwin ^e  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; ORBITS; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE STATIONS; SPACE TETHERS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

CURRENT COLLECTION; CURRENT COLLECTOR; ELECTRO-DYNAMIC TETHER; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; PLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA CHAMBERS; SHORT ELECTRODYNAMIC TETHERS;

TETHERLINES;

EID: 84983165481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1998-983     Document Type: Conference Paper

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