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    Electrodynamic tethers (EDTs) are long conducting wires, such as one deployed from a tether satellite, which can operate on electromagnetic principles...
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    space tethers are in development: Electrodynamic tethers Electrodynamic tethers are primarily used for propulsion. These are conducting tethers that carry...
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  • object will cause the rotating tether to lose energy, and thus lose velocity and altitude. However, using electrodynamic tether thrusting, or ion propulsion...
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    force or gravity gradient effects. Tethers can be deployed for a range of applications, including electrodynamic propulsion, momentum exchange, artificial...
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    Electrodynamics (ROPE), Research on Electrodynamic Tether Effects (RETE), Magnetic Field Experiment for TSS Missions (TEMAG), Shuttle Electrodynamic Tether...
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  • space Electrodynamic tether, a conductive space tether which generates current and acts against a planetary magnetic field Momentum exchange tether, a kind...
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    drive interacts only with photons. Electrodynamic tethers are long conducting wires, such as one deployed from a tether satellite, which can operate on electromagnetic...
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    in space. KITE (Kounotori Integrated Tether Experiment) was an experimental electrodynamic tether (EDT). The tether was equipped with a 20 kg end-mass,...
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  • computer systems EDT Hub, electronic document transmission software Electrodynamic tether, a spacecraft component Event dispatching thread, in Java Australian...
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  • Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite II or STARS-II, was a nanosatellite built by Japan's Kagawa University to test an electrodynamic tether in low...
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