TSS-1 is comprised of 12 investigations. Seven investigators address the science goals of the TSS-1 mission, using equipment that either stimulates or monitors the tether system and its environment. Two investigators will use ground-based instruments to measure electromagnetic emissions from the Tethered Satellite System as it passes overhead,and three investigators were slected to provide theoretical support in the areas of dynamics and electrodynamics.

TSS-1 Science Investigations

DECORE/SCORE - TSS Deployee Core Equipment and Satellite Core Equipment.
Carlo Bonifazi, Principal Investigator
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana

ROPE - Research on Orbital Plasma Electrodynamics
Nobie Stone, Principal Investigator
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

RETE - Research on Electrodynamic Tether Effects
Marino Dobrowolny, Principal Investigator
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche/Instituto Fisica Spazio Interplanetario

TEMAG - Magnetic Field Experiment for TSS Missions
Franco Mariani, Principal Investigator
Second University of Rome

SETS - Shuttle Electrodynamic Tether System
Peter Banks, Principal Investigator
University of Michigan

SPREE - Shuttle Potential and Return Electron Experiment
Marylin Oberhardt, Associate Investigator
Department of the Air Force, Phillips Laboratory

TOP - Tether Optical Phenomena Experiment
Stephen Mende, Associate Investigator
Lockheed

EMET - Investigation of Electromagnetic Emissions for Electrodynamic Tether
Robert Estes, Principal Investigator
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

OESEE - Observations at the Earth's Surface of Electromagnetic Emmissions by TSS
Georgio Tacconi, Principal Investigator
University of Genoa

IMDN - The Investigation and Measurement of Dynamic Noise in the TSS
Gordon Gullahorn, Principal Investigator
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

TEID - Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of TSS Dynamics
Silvio Bergamaschi, Principal Investigator
Institute of Applied Mechanics

TMST - Theory and Modeling in Support of Tethered Satellite Applications
Adam Drobot, Principal Investigator
Science Applications International Corporation

This page contains excerpts from the brochure: "The First Mission of the Tethered Satellite System" developed by the Tethered Satellite System Project Office, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Huntsville, Alabama. Authors are C. Blake Powers, Charlotte Shea, and Tracy McMahan, all of the Essex Corporation.

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