The main novelties and capabilities of the second version of the Bare Electrodynamic Tether
Mission Analysis Software (BETsMA v2. 0) are presented. Recent advances on Orbital …

This paper studies the nonlinear dynamics and deorbiting control of an electrodynamic
tether (EDT) system in elliptical orbits. The orbital dynamics of the system under Lorentz …

An approach to determine the force transmitted by the plasma plume of an ion thruster to an
orbital object immersed in it using its central projection on a selected plane is proposed. A …

A low-work-function tether is a long conductor coated with a low-work-function material that
orbits around a planet with both the magnetic field and ionosphere. Depending on the work …

Five electrodynamic tether simulators (BETsMA v2. 0, DYNATETHER, EDTSim, FLEX, and
TeMPEST) have been cross-verified by running and analysing simulations of increasing …

The paper deals with three nonideal effects, often neglected in the literature, which affect the
current and potential profiles along a bare electrodynamic tether. The first appears when the …

This paper developed a new multiphysics finite element method for the elastodynamic
analysis of space debris deorbit by a bare flexible electrodynamic tether. Orbital motion …

This paper provides a structural evaluation for electrodynamic tape tethers that can resist
collisions with small items of space debris. To actively remove space debris such as defunct …

Orbital lifetime estimation is a problem of great timeliness and importance in astrodynamics.
In view of the stochastic nature of the thermosphere and of the complexity of drag modeling …

Orbit debris mitigation restrictions placed on the growing number of miniaturised spacecraft
often constrain their operational altitudes to less than approximately 600km where drag …