The cable catapult is the previously proposed method of using long space tethers for high speed interplanetary transport. A long conductive multistrand cable would be connected to a power supply and pointed in the desired direction. A linear motor would pull itself along the powered cable strands and launch a payload capsule toward a distant planet, where it would be caught and decelerated by another cable catapult positioned there. In this paper it is shown how cable catapults can be used to transport themselves to a distant planet and keep themselves in position near the planet despite the tendency of the payload capsule momentum transfer to push them apart.


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    Titel :

    The cable catapult - Putting it there and keeping it there


    Beteiligte:
    Forward, Robert L. (Autor:in) / Conley, Buford R. (Autor:in) / Stanek, Clay (Autor:in) / Ramsey, William (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1992-07-01


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


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