NASA NTRS · 20120016611
Electrodynamic Tethers for Novel LEO Missions
Abstract
The exponential increase of launch system size - and cost - with deltaV makes missions requiring large total impulse cost prohibitive. Northrop Grumman and partners have matured a fundamentally different method for generating propulsion using electrodynamic tethers (EDTs) that escapes the limitations of the rocket equation. With essentially unlimited delta V, we can perform new classes of missions that are currently unaffordable or unfeasible.
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Kantner, Michael, Hoyt, Robert, Scardera, Michael, Johnson, Charles. 2011-07-25. Electrodynamic Tethers for Novel LEO Missions. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20120016611
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