A review of electrodynamic tethers for science applications

A bare electrodynamic tether (EDT) is a conductive thin wire or tape tens of kilometres long, which is kept taut in space by gravity gradient or spinning, and is left bare of insulation to collect (and carry) current as a cylindrical Langmuir probe in an ambient magnetized plasma. An EDT is a probe in mesothermal flow at highly positive (or negative) bias, with a large or extremely large 2D sheath, which may show effects from the magnetic self-field of its current and have electrons adiabatically trapped in its ram front. Beyond technical applications ranging from propellantless propulsion to power generation in orbit, EDTs allow broad scientific uses such as generating electron beams and artificial auroras; exciting Alfven waves and whistlers; odifying the radiation belts; and exploring interplanetary space and the Jovian magnetosphere. Asymptotic analysis, numerical simulations, laboratory tests, and planned missions on EDTs are reviewed

Controlled fusion and plasma research : a literature search /

Includes index.

Principles of plasma dynamics.

"These notes are the result of the author's lectures [sic] on plasma physics in the spring term of 1961 at the University of Miami."

Controlled thermonuclear processes : a literature search /

"Controlled Thermonuclear Processes ; Distributed according to TID-4500 (15th Ed.)."

Controlled fusion and plasma research : a literature search /

Includes index.

Monte Carlo simulation of nonlinear radiation induced plasmas.

Thesis--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Microwave reflection techniques for dense plasma diagnostics. /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 24).

The stability of plasmas in the presence of conducting walls.

"Prepared for the Air Force Bassistic Missle Division, Headquarters Air Research and Development Command, under Contract AF 04 (647)-594, Thermonuclear propulsion research."

A study of plasma stability in microwave cavities by a frequency-shift analog.

"Prepared for the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division, Headquarters Air Research and Development Command, under contract AF 04 (647)-309, Thermonuclear Propulsion Research."

Dynamic stabilization of a plasma column.

"This report was prepared in connection with Space Technology Laboratories Program of General Research."

Investigation of current-voltage and flow characteristics of an electric discharge across the exit of the AFFDL 1-Mw arc air heater

"Sponsored by the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory ... under Contract AF 33(615)-1835."

Plasma studies in a shock tube,

"This work was supported by the Air Research and Development Center, Griffis Air Force Base, New York."

Radiation pressure confinement, the shock pinch and feasibility of fusion propulsion,

Caption title.

Plasma turbulence.

"Prepared for the United States Atomic Energy Commission, under AEC Contract AT (04-3)-321, Plasma Turbulence Research."

Space charge limited current flow from a plane, plasma cathode,

"Prepared for the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division, Headquarters Air Research and Development Command, under contract AF 04(647)-309, Thermonuclear Propulsion Research."