Electrodynamic bare tether systems as a thruster for the Momentum-Exchange/Electrodynamic Reboost (MXER) project

G. V. Khazanov; E. N. Krivorutsky; D. L. Gallagher

doi:10.1029/2005JA011205

Electrodynamic bare tether systems as a thruster for the Momentum-Exchange/Electrodynamic Reboost (MXER) project

G. V. Khazanov
, E. N. Krivorutsky
, D. L. Gallagher

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
National Space Science and Technology Center

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Abstract

The concept of electrodynamic tether propulsion has a number of attractive features and has been widely discussed for different applications. Different system designs have been proposed and compared during the last 10 years. In spite of this, the choice of proper design for any particular mission is a unique problem. Such characteristics of tether performance as system acceleration, efficiency, etc., should be calculated and compared on the basis of the known capability of a tether to collect electrical current. We discuss the choice of parameters for circular and tape tethers with regard to the Momentum-Exchange/Electrodynamic Reboost (MXER) tether project.

Original language	English
Article number	A04309
Journal	Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Volume	111
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2005JA011205
State	Published - Apr 1 2006
Externally published	Yes

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