number of space tethers have been deployed in space missions. Tether satellites can be used for various purposes including research into tether propulsion...

Space tethers are long cables which can be used for propulsion, momentum exchange, stabilization and attitude control, or maintaining the relative positions...

of time). Mass driver Orbital ring Railgun Space elevator Space tether missions Momentum exchange tether Isaacs, J. D.; Vine, A. C.; Bradner, H; Bachus...

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...

conductive tether by its motion through a planet's magnetic field. A number of missions have demonstrated electrodynamic tethers in space, most notably...

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...

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...

served as the landing site for 78 missions, while 54 missions landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California and one mission landed at White Sands, New Mexico...

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...

NASA tether applications," Advances in Space Research, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 1055–1063, 1999. E. M. Levin, "Dynamic Analysis of Space Tether Missions", American...

other space agencies before conducting the first extended crewed missions to destinations such as Mars. Planners of human spaceflight missions face a...

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portal List of human spaceflights List of Space Shuttle crews List of Space Shuttle missions STS-135 "Space Shuttle Overview: Atlantis (OV-104)". NASA...

The European Space Agency (ESA) operates a number of space missions, both individually and in collaborations with other space agencies such as U.S. NASA...

space elevator or lunar spacelift is a proposed transportation system for moving a mechanical climbing vehicle up and down a ribbon-shaped tethered cable...

Missions to the Moon have been numerous and represent some of the earliest endeavours in space missions, with continuous exploration of the Moon beginning...

NASA missions. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe decided all future shuttle missions had to be able to reach the safe haven of the International Space Station...

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...

era. Later he worked on space tether missions. Between 1987 and 2010, von Tiesenhausen frequently volunteered at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville...

operated by the American space company SpaceX for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and private spaceflight missions. The spacecraft, which...

space. A space mission refers to a spaceflight intended to achieve an objective. Objectives for space missions may include space exploration, space research...

missions were also contemplated. One such concept was International Skylab, which proposed launching the backup Skylab B space station for a mission that...

Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite II or STARS-II, was a nanosatellite built by Japan's Kagawa University to test an electrodynamic tether in...

scientific research. The only space shuttle that could rival Columbia's long missions was Endeavour, which flew the STS-67 mission that lasted for nearly 17...

evaluate man's capability to perform work tasks in space, including the comparison of ability to work tethered and untethered, and to evaluate the performance...

coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) is an American low-level airborne ground surveillance...

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...

Satellite 2 (YES2) was a 36 kg student-built tether satellite that was part of ESA's Foton-M3 microgravity mission. The launch of the Russian Foton-M3 occurred...

tether that supplied power and communications links. The Orlan-DM and later models are self-sustaining. Name: Orlan Lunar Orbital Spacesuit Missions:...

reusable launch systems, non-rocket spacelaunch, momentum exchange tethers, and space elevators. Interstellar travel for a human crew remains at present...