NASA NTRS · 19850012039
Transportation Applications, Part 1
Abstract
The applications of tethers in support of space transportation is divided into: (1) orbit transfer, momentum transfer release/rendezvous (hanging, swinging, and spinning) and simplified docking; (2) orbit maintenance: electrodynamic thrust in or out of plane, electrodynamic libration pumping or damping, momentum scavenging, and isolate thruster exhaust; and (3) transfer within constellation: deployment or retrieval of whole constellation, clothesline loop, hoist, tram for travel on the tether, monkey between the tethers, and power and fluid transfer.
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Carroll, J.. 1985-03-01. Transportation Applications, Part 1. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19850012039
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