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The TSS project: Electrodynamics of long metallic tethers in the ionosphere

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Dobrowolny, M. The TSS project: Electrodynamics of long metallic tethers in the ionosphere. Riv. Nuovo Cim. 10, 1–83 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02740932

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