Structural Evaluation for Electrodynamic Tape Tethers Against Hypervelocity Space Debris Impacts

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 satellites f...

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