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- From: todd@numep2.phys.nwu.edu (Todd Pedlar)
- Subject: Re: Tethered Satellite
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 08:29:00 GMT
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- In article <tking.920813132256@eng.auburn.edu>, tking@eng.auburn.edu (Thomas L. King) writes...
- >Everything I've read about the tethered satellite's electric generation
- >capacity has been that it will be able to generate up to 4000 volts. This
- >in itself doesn't tell me very much. Has anyone heard how much POWER it
- >will generate (or how much current will be generated)? In addition, does
- >anyone know the current carrying capacity of the tether? I can't imagine
- >any significant amount of current flowing through a wire as thin as a
- >"bootlace".
-
- I'm not sure if anyone has yet estimated the current expected, and I don't
- have the time to attempt an estimate here, but I do know there are those
- kind of details in a quite recent issue of the EOS newsletter.
-
- >And one last wonder of mine: how will the heat generated
- >by the current be dissipated in space without an atmosphere?
- >
-
- How does the heat generated by the sun get to us???
-
- ans: "...Radiation, man!"
-
- >Any answers (or attempted explinations) will be appreciated.
- >
- >
- >Lee King
- >tking@eng.auburn.edu
-
- tkp
-
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