The application of tether technology has the potential to increase the overall performance efficiency and capability of the integrated space operations and transportation systems through the decade of the 90s. The primary concepts for which significant economic benefits were identified are dependent on the space station as a storage device for angular momentum and as an operating base for the tether system. Concepts examined include: (1) tether deorbit of shuttle from space station; (2) tethered orbit insertion of a spacecraft from shuttle; (3) tethered platform deployed from space station; (4) tether-effected rendezvous of an OMV with a returning OTV; (5) electrodynamic tether as an auxiliary power source for space station; and (6) tether assisted launch of an OTV mission from space station.


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    Title :

    Selected Tether Applications in Space: Phase 2. Executive Summary


    Contributors:
    M. H. Thorson (author) / L. J. Lippy (author)

    Publication date :

    1985


    Size :

    23 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English