This paper reports the results of three tethered rocket experiments conducted as part of a U.S.-Japan joint program under way since 1980. The major purpose of the experiments is to obtain technical and scientific data supporting the figure electrodynamic tethered subsatellite experiments by the Space Shuttle. Vehicle charging due to dc beam emission up to 80 mA in the 150-200 km altitude range was repeatedly measured by both Langmuir and floating probes, and was found to be usually less than 10 V. During the 80 mA emission, clear evidence for the ignition of a beam-plasma discharge was obtained. In a tether deployment experiment, it was found that the tether wire acted as an antenna whose impedance decreased with the extension of the wire both in high-frequency and very low-frequency bands. Substantial rocket charging was observed during periods of electron-beam very low-frequency pulsing.
Results from a series of tethered rocket experiments
1987-10-01
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Results from a series of tethered rocket experiments
AIAA | 1987
|Results from a tethered rocket experiment (Charge-2)
Elsevier | 1988
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Tema Archive | 1988
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