Tethers can be embodied into NASA's future space station development both as an experimental facility and as a technology for systems enhancement. Early action should be taken to ensure that the basic tether system be baselined into the initial space station architecture and that further concept studies be arranged to embody this basic capability. Space station tethered satellite operations would be continuous, subject to need and occasional association with local spacecraft operations in the proximity of the space station. The use of the tether principles would be further explored for attitude control and/or attitude stabilization damping, and proximity operations. For new tether uses, action should be taken to look at the tether for holding storage uses, proximity operations, and for extension of the capabilities of attached payloads systems. These applications should emphasize dynamic off-vertical tethers, rapid deployment, active-steered tethers, tether-boom combinations, and other concepts.


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    Title :

    Report of the Artificial Gravity Panel


    Contributors:
    Butler, G. (author) / Freitag, B. (author) / Doxiadis, D. (author) / Criswell, D. R. (author) / Tang, C. (author) / Fielder, D. (author) / Gille, J. (author) / Penzo, P. (author) / Kroll, K. (author) / Napolitano, L. (author)


    Publication date :

    1985-03-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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