Electrodynamic tethers for reboost of the international space station and spacecraft propulsion

1996 Space Programs and Technologies Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 1-7

  Johnson, Les ^a   Carroll, Joe ^b   Estes, Robert D ^c   Lorenzini, Enrico ^c   Gilchrist, Brian ^d   Martinez Sanchez, Manuel ^e   Sanmartín, Juan ^f   Vas, Irwin ^g  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Tether Applications Inc   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^g BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; AERODYNAMIC DRAG; DRAG; ELECTRODYNAMICS; PROPULSION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE STATIONS; SPACE TETHERS; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

ACTIVE CURRENT; CONVENTIONAL PROPULSION; ELECTRO-DYNAMIC TETHER; EMERGENCY BACKUP; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; MOTOR GENERATOR; TETHERED SATELLITE SYSTEMS; THRUSTER FIRINGS;

TETHERLINES;

EID: 84983199945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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