The Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System (ProSEDS) space experiment will demonstrate the use of an electrodynamic tether propulsion system. ProSEDS which is planned to fly in 2000, uses the flight proven Small Expendable Deployer System (SEDS) to deploy a tether (5km bare wire plus 15 km spectra) from a Delta II upper stage to achieve approximately 0.4N drag thrust, thus demonstrating deorbit thrust. The experiment uses a predominantly 'bare' tether for current collection in lieu of endmass collector and insulated tether approach used on previous missions. ProSEDS utilizes tether-generated current to provide limited spacecraft power. In addition to the use of this technology to provide orbit transfer of payloads and upper stages from LEO to higher orbits, it may also be an attractive option for future missions to Jupiter and any other planetary body with a magnetosphere.
Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System (ProSEDS) Space Experiment
1998
6 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System (ProSEDS)
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001
|Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System (ProSEDS)
NTIS | 2002
|Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System (ProSEDS)
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2002
|Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System (ProSEDS)
NTIS | 2001
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