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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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, often referred to by its currency codes USD₮ and USDT, is a cryptocurrency stablecoin launched by Tether Limited Inc. in 2014. It is pegged to...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    K.; Zhu, Z.H. (2009). "A free-standing space elevator structure: a practical alternative to the space tether". Acta Astronautica. 65 (3–4): 365–375....
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    United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University The Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite (STARS, aka STARS-1, aka KUKAI, COSPAR...
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    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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    STS-75 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle mission, the 19th mission of the Columbia orbiter. The primary objective of STS-75 was to carry the Tethered Satellite System...
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  • commonly prepared by Tunisian, Libyan, and Italian Jews Bolo (tether), a type of spinning space tether Bolo bat, a child's toy Bolo punch, a wide sweeping lower...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Orbital ring (category Space elevator)
    derived separately. The space fountain is a vertical version of the particle ring concept that forms a space elevator. The tethered ring is a dynamic structure...
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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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    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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    reusable launch systems, non-rocket spacelaunch, momentum exchange tethers, and space elevators. Interstellar travel for a human crew remains at present...
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  • UHMWPE was used for the 30 km (19 mi) long, 0.6 mm (0.024 in) thick space tether in the ESA/Russian Young Engineers' Satellite 2 of September, 2007. Dyneema...
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