A skyhook is a "hook" used to lift an object on a long cable hanging from the sky, without readily apparent support. In the mid-20th century it was common...

Look up skyhook in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Skyhook, sky hook or skyhooks may refer to: Sky Hook, a Hugo Award–nominated science fiction fanzine...

A skyhook is a proposed momentum exchange tether that aims to reduce the cost of placing payloads into low Earth orbit. A heavy orbiting station is connected...

atmosphere (skyhook cable is not attached to Earth). The rotating skyhook changes this design to decrease the speed of the lower end; the entire cable rotates...

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The Fulton surface-to-air recovery system (STARS), also known as Skyhook, is a system used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States Air...

article in 1977 called "A Non-Synchronous Orbital Skyhook" describing a concept using a rotating cable. The rotation speed would exactly match the orbital...

Ring (in the novel Ringworld): orbital ring around a star Space tether Skyhook Gravity elevator US 11014692B2, issued 2021-05-25  Swan, Philip (2023)...

have been proposed. In some systems, such as a combination launch system, skyhook, rocket sled launch, rockoon, or air launch, a portion of the total delta-v...

non-rotating Orbiting Skyhook for an Earth-to-orbit / orbit-to-escape-velocity Space Transportation System in a paper titled "An Orbiting Skyhook: Affordable Access...

nanotube-based materials as the tensile element in the tether design. The rotating skyhook, or momentum-exchange tether, is an idea related to the space elevator...

For recovery, the quadrotor hovers trailing a cable that it captures, as it would the cable from the SkyHook crane." FLARES incorporates the VTOL advantages...

Harriers by installing the Skyhook on board. Perhaps the most elaborate implementation proposed was the application of the Skyhook to large submarines, such...

original on June 14, 2017. Metcalf, Mitch (April 24, 2017). "Top 100 Friday Cable Originals & Network Update: 4.21.2017". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the...

The New York Times. 29 September 1976. Retrieved 26 November 2023. "'Skyhook' and other CIA spyware". San Francisco Chronicle. 16 October 2012. Retrieved...

reached its destination. Colonization of the Moon Non-rocket spacelaunch Skyhook (structure) Space tether Pearson, Jerome; Eugene Levin; John Oldson & Harry...

to operate without still being attached. This is a description of the Skyhook system, hence its name. In the 'engage' style MARDs, a small but simple...

"Monday's Cable Ratings: 'Pawn Stars' Tops Heated Race". The Futon Critic. July 13, 2011. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013. "Monday's Cable Ratings:...

States Air Force's Project Blue Book indicated that Mantell died chasing a Skyhook balloon, which, in 1948, was a top-secret project that he would not have...

"Non-Synchronous Orbital Skyhooks for the Moon and Mars with Conventional Materials" (Hans Moravec's thoughts on skyhooks, tethers, rotavators, etc....

flying it by remote control from Oscar Dyson, and recovering it with a "skyhook" system – a vertical line deployed over Oscar Dyson's starboard side between...

referred to as the "Intercontinental Mooring Cable." Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, anime series, contains a skyhook throughout the series. Cannon God Exaxxion...

psychic powers and the ability to transform into a more monstrous form. Skyhook (Aleister Hook) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books...

lubricants, ballast, crew, supplies and military load (including the skyhook airplanes) Eight Maybach VL II 560 hp (420 kW) gasoline engines were mounted...

system for emergency extraction by plane called "Skyhook". Skyhook utilized a large helium balloon and cable rig with harness. A special grabbing device on...

mechanical piece of climbing equipment used in aid climbing. See also skyhook. hueco A round hold consisting of a pocket in the rock with a positive...

"Helistat" attached four helicopter airframes to a helium blimp, while the SkyHook JHL-40 remains a project. Typically, aerostatic lift is sufficient to support...

Goûter or Grand Couloir. The 100 m-long section is protected by a steel cable, intended to be used in avalanche emergencies only. The unstable rocks in...

Southampton on the ship Fairsea. Also aboard was Red Symons, future guitarist of Skyhooks, as well as Kylie Minogue's parents. The group later made a new group called...

to 45 percent of its viewership. While some of it can be attributed to "cable-cutting", other professional leagues, like the NFL and MLB have retained...