An overview of electrodynamic tethers

38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Estes, R D ^a   Lorenzini, E C ^a   Santangelo, A ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b The Michigan Technic Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DRAG; ELECTRODYNAMICS; NASA; ORBITS; SOFTWARE TESTING; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE POWER GENERATION; SPACE STATIONS; SPACE TETHERS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

BASIC PRINCIPLES; ELECTRO-DYNAMIC TETHER; ELECTRODYNAMIC TETHER SYSTEM; ELECTRON COLLECTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; PROPULSION SYSTEM; SPACE EXPERIMENTS;

TETHERLINES;

EID: 85088186252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2000-322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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