Space tethers are long cables which can be used for propulsion, momentum exchange, stabilization and attitude control, or maintaining the relative positions...
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number of space tethers have been deployed in space missions. Tether satellites can be used for various purposes including research into tether propulsion...
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Skyhook (structure) (redirect from Hypersonic Airplane Space Tether Orbital Launch)
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...
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component would be a cable (also called a tether) anchored to the surface and extending into space. An Earth-based space elevator would consist of a cable with...
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exchange tether is a kind of space tether that could theoretically be used as a launch system, or to change spacecraft orbits. Momentum exchange tethers create...
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Non-rocket spacelaunch (redirect from Rotovator (tether propulsion))
cables (known as tethers) to lift a payload into space. Tethers can also be used for changing orbit once in space. Orbital tethers can be tidally locked...
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constraint, space walks, power kiteing, and anti-theft devices. Failure modes for tethers are considered in their design. A cord or rope tether may reach...
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conductive tether by its motion through a planet's magnetic field. A number of missions have demonstrated electrodynamic tethers in space, most notably...
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tether, a kind of space tether Skyhook (structure), or a tidal stabilized tether Space elevator, a geostationary orbital tether "Tether" (song), by Eric...
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Mostly Tenacity expressed in report as cN/tex. Specific modulus Space elevator Space tether "Acetal Polyoxymethylene Homopolymer - POM". AZoM.com. August...
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space elevator or lunar spacelift is a proposed transportation system for moving a mechanical climbing vehicle up and down a ribbon-shaped tethered cable...
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for space, sea, and air. Founded in 1994 by Robert P. Hoyt and Robert L. Forward, Tethers Unlimited began developing products based on space tether technologies...
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Tether (often referred to by its currency codes, USD₮ and USDT, among others) is a cryptocurrency stablecoin, launched by the company Tether Limited Inc...
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STS-75 (category Space Shuttle missions)
reflight of TSS-1 which was flown onboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-46 in July/August 1992. The Tether Satellite System circled the Earth at an altitude...
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STARS-II (redirect from Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite 2)
Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite II or STARS-II, was a nanosatellite built by Japan's Kagawa University to test an electrodynamic tether in...
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List of CubeSats (section Space tether)
Slostad, "Early Results of the Multi-Application Survivable Tether (MAST) Space Tether Experiment," Proceedings of the 21st AIAA/USU Conference on Small...
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Information and Prevention System Tether Physics and Survivability Experiment, a satellite to experiment with space tether Theory of Inventive Problem Solving...
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Kagawa University (redirect from Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite)
Graduate School of Law United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences The Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite (STARS, aka STARS-1, aka KUKAI, COSPAR...
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safety Space elevators in fiction Space tether Tether propulsion Grush, Loren (24 December 2015). "SpaceX's reusable rockets will make space cheaper...
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TSS-1, Tethered Satellite System-1, a 1990s joint space experiment program between Italy and USA flying a space tether TSS-1R, reflight of the Tethered Satellite...
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stabilization is a passive method of stabilizing artificial satellites or space tethers in a fixed orientation using only the mass distribution of the orbited...
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List of hypothetical technologies (section Space)
coach Space dock Space elevator Space fountain Space gun Space mirror Space tether Space tug Spomified asteroid Stanford torus Starlifting Starseed launcher...
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Interplanetary spaceflight (redirect from Interplanetary space travel)
future NASA tether applications," Advances in Space Research, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 1055–1063, 1999. E. M. Levin, "Dynamic Analysis of Space Tether Missions"...
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Universal Orbital Support System (category Space elevator)
System is a concept for suspending an object from a tether orbiting in space. A concept for providing space-based support to things suspended above an astronomical...
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rather than the more common tether structure previously envisaged 2312 (2012), novel by Kim Stanley Robinson. Thirty-seven space elevators connect Earth's...
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STEX (redirect from Advanced Tether Experiment)
deploy to a length of 6 km, and was intended to test a new space tether deployment scheme, new tether material, active control, and survivability. ATEx was...
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Robert P. Hoyt (category Space scientists)
architecture for in-space additive manufacture of spacecraft as well as for his invention of the Hoytether. He also originated the MXER Tether concept, which...
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Extravehicular activity (redirect from Space walk)
4 ft) tether. After the flight, he claimed this was easy, but his space suit ballooned from its internal pressure against the vacuum of space, stiffening...
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Challenges and the Kansas City Space Pirates". SpaceElevatorBlog. 24 September 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2013. "Strong Tether Challenge". Archived from the...
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Asteroid mining (redirect from Space mining)
vehicle as seen in 1984 Artist's concept of an asteroid moved by a space tether 16 Psyche space elevator concept The surface gravity is less than 2% of Earth's...
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