Nobuki Kawashima

TL;DR: Electron and plasma beams and neutral gas plumes were injected into the space environment by instruments on Spacelab 1, and various diagnostic measurements including television camera observations were performed.

TL;DR: In this article, the charging of the Space Shuttle/Spacelab-1 using the Space Experiments with Particle Accelerators (SEPAC) was studied using data from a Langmuir probe, floating probes, an electron energy analyzer and a low-light-level TV camera.

TL;DR: The tethered mother-daughter rocket experiment (Charge 2) was carried out by a NASA sounding rocket, Black Brant 9, at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in December 1985 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sudden anomalous increase in the plasma resistivity at a magnetic neutral point is observed which results in fast energy dissipation and strong plasma heating, which cannot be explained by a simple classical process and the role of turbulent waves should be important.

TL;DR: The data obtained in the most recent Japan-US tether rocket experiment CHARGE 2 have been further analyzed in this paper, where the interaction of the moving tether system across the geomagnetic field with the ionospheric plasma can be explained by a simple model of the current through a plasma.