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PMG


Plasma Motor Generator

General


Designation 22701 / 93042B
Launch date 26 Jun 1993 at 13:27 UT
Country of origin United States
Mission Tether experiment
Perigee/Apogee 192/850 km
Inclination 26°
Period  
Launch vehicle Delta 2 7925
Launch site Cape Canaveral

The PMG experiment uses somewhat different hardware from the Seds deployer, although it is for the most part built by the same groups. The PMG tether remained attached to the Delta stage.

PMG was launched with a 500m conducting tether containing a copper cable. The tether deployer and end mass contained a xenon gas dispenser to complete a 0.1 kV electrical circuit through the tether with a 0.3 amp current, in a 6-hour experiment to study space tethers' electrodynamic properties.

External resources


http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/tether/tethers.html

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