The tethered satellite system, a joint U.S.-Italian project to develop a Space Shuttle-based facility for deploying satellites either radially toward or away from the earth to distances up to 100 km, is described with particular attention given to its first mission (TSS-1). The main objective of the TSS-1 mission is to verify the capability of the facility to deploy, control, and retrieve a tethered satellite. The TSS-1 mission will provide a 20-km scale size space plasma physics research facility that moves at supersonic sub-Alfvenic speeds through the natural and unbounded ionospheric magnetoplasma.


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    Title :

    The tethered satellite system - An electrodynamic mission


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    Publication date :

    1989-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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    STONE, NOBIE / STUART, THOMAS | AIAA | 1989



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