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Magnetobraking: Use of tether electrodynamic drag for Earth return from Mars

Landis, 1994

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14591256054784565546
Author
Landis G
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Pennsylvania State Univ., NASA Propulsion Engineering Research Center, Volume 2

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It has often been proposed that a vehicle returning from Mars will use aerobraking in the Earth's atmosphere to dissipate hyperbolic excess velocity to capture into Earth orbit. Here a different system for dissipating excess velocity without expenditure of reaction mass …
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