Plasma turbulence enhanced current collection: Results from the plasma motor generator electrodynamic tether flight

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Feb 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995jgr...100.1687k&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 100, no. A2, p. 1687-1690

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Contactors, Earth Ionosphere, Earth Orbits, Geomagnetism, Plasma Turbulence, Plasma Waves, Tethering, Cyclotron Frequency, Delta Launch Vehicle, Electron Density (Concentration), Plasma Frequencies

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The plasma motor generator (PMG) experiment, launched June 26, 1993, was a tethered system of two identical plasma contactors connected via a 500-m conducting tether. The experiment was designed to demonstrate the ability of plasma contactors to provide a low-impedance connection between a spacecraft and the ionosphere for both the electron emission and collection. The flight data indicate that plasma contactors enhance electron collection and emission by both neutralizing the electron space charge and scattering electrons across the geomagnetic field lines. Up to a 0.3 A steady current flowed along the tether in a curcuit completed through the ionosphere. An analytical model for plasma contactor interaction with a background plasma which incorporates electron scattering by plasma waves is compared with the flight data. Good agreement between the model and the data is achieved for an effective scattering frequency equal to one twentieth of the local plasma contactor plasma frequency.

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