Electrodynamic tape tether performance with varying tether widths at low earth altitudes

39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Van Noord, Jonathan ^a   West, Brent ^b   Gilchrist, Brian ^b  

^a The Michigan Technic Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; ORBITS; SATELLITES;

DEORBITS; DRAG FORCES; LOW ALTITUDES; ORBIT TRANSFER; TAPE TETHER; TETHERED SATELLITE;

TETHERLINES;

EID: 85088342136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-1141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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