| Institution: | 1. Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0292, Japan;2. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 6-6, Asahigaoka, Hino, Tokyo 191-0065, Japan;3. Airship Technology and Survey Technology Institute, Japan;4. Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 432-8561, Japan;5. Kyusyu Institute of Technology, Kitakyusyu 804-8550, Japan;6. JAXA/ISAS, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-0022, Japan;7. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA;8. NASA, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center;9. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain;10. ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands;11. Delta Utec, 2312 TT Leiden, Netherlands;12. RMIT University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia;1. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, 119991, Main Building, GSP-1, 1 Leninskiye Gory, Moscow, Russia;2. Federal Science Center Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 117218, 36-1 Nakhimovskiy pr., Moscow, Russia;1. University of Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering, Via Venezia 1, Padova 35131, Italy;2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge 02139, MA, United States;3. Airbus DS Space Systems, Inc., 555 Forge River Rd Suite 115 Webster, TX 77586 |
| Abstract: | An overview of a sounding rocket, S-520-25th, project on space tether technology experiment is presented. The project is prepared by an international research group consisting of Japanese, European, American, and Australian researchers. The sounding rocket will be assembled by the ISAS/JAXA and will be launched in the summer of 2009. The sounding rocket mission includes two engineering experiments and two scientific experiments. These experiments consist of the deployment of bare electrodynamic tape tether in space, a quick ignition test of hollow cathode system in space, the demonstration of bare electrodynamic tether system in space, and the test of the OML (orbital-motion-limit) current collection theory. |
