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...

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...

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and transfers gases from the atmosphere to an orbital station. A Skyhook (structure) is similar to a space elevator, such a device would be used to pump...

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can be tamed. The skyhook is another launch system concept. A skyhook could be either rotating or non-rotating. The non-rotating skyhook hangs from a low...

introduces the concept of "skyhooks" and "cranes" (see below). He suggests that resistance to Darwinism is based on a desire for skyhooks, which do not really...

the Moon)'s surface to its orbit without using external boosters Skyhook (structure) – Slew – Stream function – Streamline – Solar panel – Solar sail...

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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...

inflated into its final form. A stellaser is a star-powered laser or maser. A skyhook is a very long tether that hangs down from orbit. A space elevator is a...

tether Skyhook Gravity elevator US 11014692B2, issued 2021-05-25  Swan, Philip (2023). "The Techno-Economic Viability of Actively Supported Structures for...

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...

another. The aircraft would dock when the skyhook is nadir-pointing and release when the rotating-skyhook returns to the same orientation. In this scenario...

Moravec published an article in 1977 called "A Non-Synchronous Orbital Skyhook" describing a concept using a rotating cable. The rotation speed would...

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...

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method of launching an object into space using a large gun- or cannon-like structure. Space guns could thus potentially provide a method of non-rocket spacelaunch...

that this would keep the 2-ton/meter structure strongly pressing up on its angled tethers, a tensile structure on grand scale. In the example of niobium-titanium...

chrome grille with horizontal slats, adaptive suspension, marketed as Skyhook and 330 mm brake disks with four piston calipers at each wheel. Maserati...

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increased sound insulation, a strengthened body structure, suspension updates (first LS/Celsior with Skyhook adaptive computerized air suspension), and improved...

Adventure racing Industrial/commercial applications – to access parts of structures or buildings so as to perform maintenance, cleaning or construction, known...

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In 1998, a suspension system combining Active Height Control (AHC) and Skyhook TEMS Toyota Electronic Modulated Suspension on the Land Cruiser J100 was...