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One kilometer (1km) ESAIL tether produced automatically

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dc.date.accessioned 2013-11-18T12:59:18Z und
dc.date.accessioned 2017-10-24T12:04:43Z
dc.date.available 2013-11-18T12:59:18Z und
dc.date.available 2017-10-24T12:04:43Z
dc.date.issued 2013-11-18T12:59:18Z
dc.identifier.uri http://radr.hulib.helsinki.fi/handle/10138.1/3238 und
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10138.1/3238
dc.title One kilometer (1km) ESAIL tether produced automatically en
ethesis.discipline Physics en
ethesis.discipline Fysiikka fi
ethesis.discipline Fysik sv
ethesis.discipline.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/3434818f-62d6-4ad2-9c9b-7a86be9cf8e6
ethesis.department.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/3acb09b1-e6a2-4faa-b677-1a1b03285b66
ethesis.department Institutionen för fysik sv
ethesis.department Department of Physics en
ethesis.department Fysiikan laitos fi
ethesis.faculty Matematisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten sv
ethesis.faculty Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta fi
ethesis.faculty Faculty of Science en
ethesis.faculty.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/8d59209f-6614-4edd-9744-1ebdaf1d13ca
ethesis.university.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/50ae46d8-7ba9-4821-877c-c994c78b0d97
ethesis.university Helsingfors universitet sv
ethesis.university University of Helsinki en
ethesis.university Helsingin yliopisto fi
dct.creator Rauhala, Timo
dct.issued 2013
dct.language.ISO639-2 eng
dct.abstract The electric solar wind sail (E-Sail) is a space propulsion invention exploiting the dynamic pressure of the solar wind. It uses centrifugally stretched positively charged conductive tethers to create thrust from the momentum flux of the solar wind. In space the tethers must be micrometeoroid resistant. We use ultrasonic bonding to create an aluminum multiwire Heytether structure to address this issue. For this work we produced a 1 km continuous piece of multifilament E-Sail tether of µm-diameter aluminum wires using a custom made automatic tether factory. The tether comprising 90704 bonds between 25 and 50 µm diameter wires is reeled onto a metal reel. The total mass of 1 km tether is 10 g. We reached a production rate of 70 m/24 h and a quality level of 1 ‰ loose bonds and 2 ‰ rebonded ones. Thus, we demonstrated that production of long electric solar wind sail tethers is both possible and practical. Based on images captured of each bond, a post production analysis was done to determine failure rate and types of the failures that occured during the production. en
dct.language en
ethesis.language.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/languages/eng
ethesis.language English en
ethesis.language englanti fi
ethesis.language engelska sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu-avhandlingar sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu -tutkielmat fi
ethesis.thesistype master's thesis en
ethesis.thesistype.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/thesistypes/mastersthesis
dct.identifier.urn URN:NBN:fi-fe2017112252462
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