Saturn power generation with electrodynamic tethers in polar orbit

Bombardelli, Claudio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9181-1487, Lorenzini, Enrico C. and Sanmartín Losada, Juan Ramón (2009). Saturn power generation with electrodynamic tethers in polar orbit. En: "AAS/AIAA 19th Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting", 8 - 12 feb 2009, Savana. ISBN 978-0877035541.

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Título: Saturn power generation with electrodynamic tethers in polar orbit
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Tipo de Documento: Ponencia en Congreso o Jornada (Artículo)
Título del Evento: AAS/AIAA 19th Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting
Fechas del Evento: 8 - 12 feb 2009
Lugar del Evento: Savana
Título del Libro: Spaceflight Mechanics 2009
Fecha: 2009
ISBN: 978-0877035541
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Escuela: E.T.S.I. Aeronáuticos (UPM) [antigua denominación]
Departamento: Física Aplicada a la Ingeniería Aeronáutica [hasta 2014]
Licencias Creative Commons: Reconocimiento - Sin obra derivada - No comercial

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Resumen

A power generation scheme based on bare electrodynamic tethers (EDT), working in passive mode is investigated for the purpose of supplying power to scientific missions at Saturn. The system employs a spinning EDT on a lowaltitude
polar orbit which permits to efficiently convert plasmasphere energy into useful power. After optimizing the tether design for power generation we compute the supplied power along the orbit and the impact of the Lorentz force
on the orbital elements as function of the tether and orbit characteristics.
Although uncertainties in the current ionosphere density modeling strongly affect the performance of the system the peak power density of the EDT appears be greater than conventional power systems.

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