%0 Conference Paper
%A Montero, Isabel
%A Sanmartín Losada, Juan Ramón
%B European Planetary Science Congress 2017
%C Riga, Estonia
%D 2017
%F upm:53258
%T On aluminum tapes treated for missions at Jupiter
%U https://oa.upm.es/53258/
%X Electrodynamic tethers are effective at Jupiter because of its high magnetic field, the length-averaged tether current lying well below its high short-circuit bound for dimensions of interest. With aluminium tethers having thermal emissivity as low as 0.03 at a temperature of 300 K, over the entire spectrum, they present inadequate heat dissipation in the termal infrared region. A nanostructured coating with high thermal-emissivity and high conductivity, as compared to Al and Al2O3 respectively, is being developed in the present work for tethers exposed to the hard conditions at Jovian operation.