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Pathfinder
From the collection of NASA Image and Video Library. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This picture is an artist's concept of an orbiting vehicle using the Electrodynamic Tethers Propulsion System. Relatively short electrodynamic tethers can use solar power to push against a planetary magnetic field to achieve propulsion without the expenditure of propellant.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePathfinder. NASA/MSFC, 2004-04-15. Public domain. ID: 9906377.
