Space tether dynamics: an introduction

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/AAAC9CMaRDI QIDQ4571710zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mark Denny

Publication date 29 June 2018

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aaac9c

zbMATH Keywords

carbon nanotubesclassical mechanicsgravitational orbitsLagrangian mechanicsspace technology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrange's equations (70H03) Orbital mechanics (70M20)

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