Development of a Ground-based Test Facility for Studying Reel-in Dynamics of Tethered Satellite Systems.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dr. Andre Mazzoleni, Committee Chair | en_US |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dr. Gregory Buckner, Committee Member | en_US |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dr. Larry Silverberg, Committee Member | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Newsome, Justin Carlyle | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-02T18:03:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-04-02T18:03:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-12-06 | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Mechanical Engineering | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | thesis | en_US |
| dc.degree.name | MS | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Tethered Satellites offer benefits for the space industry. Several applications are being found which utilize their unique dynamics; from sensing characteristics of the atmosphere to providing a propellantless mode of propulsion. Ground-based experimentation is useful as a cost effective means to develop a thorough understanding of tether dynamics. A number of experiments are required to fully investigate the behavior. After examining a number of experiments previously conducted, a new experiment is devised and tested. The experiment consists of designing a low friction representation of a satellite, the design of a stationary post to be tethered to the satellite representation, choosing an adequate test facility, and developing a means of acquiring data from the experiment. In order to check that the experiment is a useful tool for tether analysis, a mathematical model for the system is developed and then the experimental and mathematical results are compared. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | etd-08162006-014657 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/1361 | |
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| dc.subject | Justin Newsome | en_US |
| dc.subject | tether | en_US |
| dc.subject | tethered satellite | en_US |
| dc.subject | ground-based | en_US |
| dc.subject | dynamics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Euler-Newtonian | en_US |
| dc.subject | hovercraft | en_US |
| dc.subject | MatLab | en_US |
| dc.title | Development of a Ground-based Test Facility for Studying Reel-in Dynamics of Tethered Satellite Systems. | en_US |
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