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This paper is an overview of the project TSS-1 and of its basic electrodynamic-science objectives. To this purpose, we first discuss the electrodynamics of conducting tethers in orbit and, secondly, provide a detailed description of the project and its payload. We also add, in the final part of the paper, a short account of the first TSS-1 flight which took place in August 1992.
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Dobrowolny, M., Melchioni, E. & Candidi, M. An overview of plasma science in the first Tethered-Satellite project (TSS-1). Il Nuovo Cimento C 16, 495–505 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02512032
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