Electrodynamic tether technology starts development
The BETs projects holds its first review meeting in the University of Padova (Italy)
Hosted by the University of Padova, the BETs Project team has held the Preliminary Design Review meeting of its FP7 European Project aimed to develop a tether based propulsion space component to easy the de-orbiting of end-off-life satellites, thus mitigating space debris around Earth.
The meeting presented the preliminary developments of the system to be developed and paved the way to the Definitive Design Review to he held in Madrid at the end of this year.
BETs joins a multinational excellence team to approach Electrodynamic tether propulsion technology in a unique multidisciplinary fashion covering topics like materials science, plasma physics, orbit dynamics, mechanics, electric driving control and space expertise that will bridge the gap between concept and real space applications.
For further information about the BETs project visit The BETs Project.
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