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The concept of a spinning two-craft Coulomb tether is introduced. Here a physical tether is replaced with an electrostatic force field resulting in an attractive Coulomb force between the two craft. This results in conic section motions similar to the two-body gravitational problem, with spinning in-plane and out-of-plane motions. The spacecraft charge is assumed to be regulated with an active charge...
The concept of a spinning 2-craft Coulomb tether is introduced. Here a physical tether is replaced with an electrostatic force field resulting in an attractive Coulomb force between the 2-craft. The spacecraft charge is assumed to be regulated with an active charge servo system. The open-loop stability of a Coulomb tether with constant spacecraft charges is investigated. The reduced equations of motion...
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