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Three-Body Dynamics and Self-Powering of an Electrodynamic Tether in a Plasmasphere
Año:2010
Áreas de investigación
  • Ingeniería aeronaútica
Datos
Descripción
The dynamics of an electrodynamic tether in a three-body gravitational environment are investigated. In the classical two-body scenario the extraction of power is at the expense of orbital kinetic energy. As a result of power extraction, an electrodynamic tether satellite system loses altitude and deorbits. This concept has been proposed and well investigated in the past, for example for orbital debris mitigation and spent stages reentry. On the other hand, in the three-body scenario an electrodynamic tether can be placed in an equilibrium position fixed with respect to the two primary bodies without deorbiting, and at the same time generate power for onboard use. The appearance of new equilibrium positions in the perturbed three-body problem allow this to happen as the electrical power is extracted at the expenses of the plasma corotating with the primary body. Fundamental differences between the classical twobody dynamics and the new phenomena appearing in the circular restricted three-body problem perturbed by the electrodynamic force of the electrodynamic tether are shown in the paper. An interesting application of an electrodynamic tether placed in the Jupiter plasma torus is then considered, in which the electrodynamic tether generates useful electrical power of about 1 kW with a 20-km-long electrodynamic tether from the environmental plasma without losing orbital energy.
Internacional
Si
JCR del ISI
Si
Título de la revista
JOURNAL OF PROPULSION AND POWER
ISSN
0748-4658
Factor de impacto JCR
0,884
Información de impacto
Volumen
26
DOI
10.2514/1.46848
Número de revista
3
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Participantes
  • Autor: Claudio Bombardelli UPM
  • autor: M. Sanjurjo-Rivo UPM
  • Autor: Jesus Pelaez Alvarez UPM
  • Autor: D. Currelli Universidad de Padua
  • Autor: E. C. Lorenzini Universidad de Padua
  • Autor: M. Lara ROA
  • Autor: D. J. Scheeres University of Colorado (at Boulder)
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  • Creador: Departamento: Física Aplicada a la Ingeniería Aeronáutica