Tethered rocket experiments have been carried out four times during a US-Japan joint space program in progress since 1980. The goal of the rocket program has been to perform a new type of active experiment by ejecting an electron beam from the tethered mother-daughter payload system. In the third and fourth rocket flights, the conductive tether wire was deployed more than 400 m. It was found that the tether wire acted as an antenna and its antenna impedance decreased with the extension of the wire both in HF and VLF bands. The vehicle charging due to the beam emission up to 80 mA was repeatedly measured in the series of the experiments. During the 80 mA emission, a clear evidence for the ignition of a beam plasma discharge was obtained by the plasma probe, photometers and wave receivers.
Results from a series of US/Japan tethered rocket experiments
1986-09-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
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Englisch
Results from a series of tethered rocket experiments
AIAA | 1987
|Results from a series of tethered rocket experiments
NTRS | 1987
|Results from a tethered rocket experiment (Charge-2)
Elsevier | 1988
|Tethered rocket experiment (Charge 2). Initial results on electrodynamics
Tema Archiv | 1988
|Results from Japanese sounding rocket experiments from Andoeya
British Library Online Contents | 1995
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