NASA's Tethered Satellite experiment.?

Jessica

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In 1996, NASA performed an experiment called the Tethered Satellite experiment. In this experiment a 1.6 x 10^4 m length of wire was let out by the space shuttle Atlantis to generate a motional EMF. The shuttle had an orbital speed of 7.8 x 10^3 m/s, and the magnitude of the earth's magnetic field at the location of the wire was 4.7x 10^-5 T. If the wire had moved perpendicular to the earth's magnetic field, what would have been the motional emf generated between the ends of the wire?
 
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