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creators_name: Ahedo Galilea, Eduardo
creators_name: Conde López, Luis
creators_name: Peláez Álvarez, Jesús
creators_name: Sanmartín Losada, Juan Ramón
title: New electrodynamic tether technology
publisher: ESA
rights: by-nc-nd
ispublished: pub
subjects: aeronautica
subjects: fisica
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
abstract: New Electrodynarnic Tether Technology (NETT) is
an experiment we proposed to ESA as part of the Columbus
Precursor Flights. It was designed to fly as an exposed
payload in the Spacelab carrier. Its primary objective
is performance testing for the innovative bare tether
concept. The experiment also includes two scientific objectives, specific for uninsulated tethers: i) detection of artificial auroral effects produced by secondary electron
emission, and ii) detection of VLF wave emission. Additional
objectives of the project are space performance of an electron-emitting hollow cathode and engineering verification of an open-loop deployment strategy.
date_type: published
date: 1994
place_of_pub: Paris
event_title: Secon Euro-Latin American Space Days
event_location: Buenos Aires
event_dates: 9--13 may
event_type: conference
institution: Aeronauticos
department: Fisica2
book_title: Proceedings of the Second Euro-Latin American Space Days
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7. Williams, J.D. (1989, 1991), Plasma Contactor Research,
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8. Conde, L., and Leon, L. (1994), Multiple double layers in aglow discharge, Physics of Plasmas (accepted).
9. Ahedo, E., Martinez-Sanchez, M., and Sanmartin,J. (1992), Current collection by an active spherical electrode
in an unmagnetized plasma, Physics of Fluids B, 4, 12, 3847-3855.
citation:   Ahedo Galilea, Eduardo and Conde López, Luis and Peláez Álvarez, Jesús and Sanmartín Losada, Juan Ramón  (1994).  New electrodynamic tether technology.  In: "Secon Euro-Latin American Space Days", 9--13 may, Buenos Aires.    
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