Aerospace engineers in Germany watched through cameras as they activated a superconducting magnet to push aside electrons in a plasma layer surrounding the surface of a simulated space capsule in a vacuum chamber They hoped to form a narrow channel in the plasma through which radio signals could travel. Here, Button discusses the possible solution for the radio blackouts that have plagued returning space capsules since the 1960s.


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    Title :

    Blackout busters


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2017



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    Local classification TIB:    770/7040
    BKL:    55.88 Luftverkehr, Raumfahrt / 55.88



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