Tethers have not yet been used as fully operational equipment, but various promising experiments have already been performed in space. Most were relatively unimportant add-ons to missions with some mass and volume to spare, but there have also been some for which the demonstration of one or more applications of tethers was a major objective.
Early Experiments
Space Tethers and Space Elevators ; Chapter : 4 ; 59-92
2009-04-03
34 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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