A code for the analysis of missions with electrodynamic tethers

Deorbit kit demonstration mission

“…The DKD performance has been addressed using BETsMA v.2 [19,20,21,22] considering a 24 kg spacecraft in a 600 km circular orbit deploying a 500 m tether with a 400 m bare Aluminium segment. The performance is estimated assuming duty cycle of 100% and 30% of the hollow cathode (Figure 15).…”