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Electrodynamic tether

Electrodynamic tethers (EDTs) are long conducting wires, such as one deployed from a tether satellite, which can operate on electromagnetic principles as generators, by converting their kinetic energy to electrical energy, or as motors, converting electrical energy to kinetic energy. Electric potential is generated across a conductive tether by its…

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Tether propulsion

Electrodynamic tether fundamentals

Tethers as generators

Current collection / emission for an EDT system: theory and technology

Electrodynamic tether system fundamentals

Interstellar travel

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Electrodynamic tether → Cambridge, DC, Dobrowolny, High, Mass, NASA, NASA CR-178949, National Aeronautics, SAO, Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Space Administration, Washington, Wave, Williamson
related to Tether propulsion · 10
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related to Uses for ED tethers · 8
Electrodynamic tether → All, Many, Over, Potential, Some, Tethers Handbook, The, Three
related to Electrodynamic tether fundamentals · 7
Electrodynamic tether → An, EMF, Faraday's Law, Induction, Primary, Secondary, The
related to Tethers as generators · 6
Electrodynamic tether → An, As, Functionally, In, The, When

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