NASA NTRS · 19980202360
Space Tethers Design Criteria
Abstract
The small expendable deployable system and tether satellite system programs did not have a uniform written criteria for tethers. The JSC safety panel asked what criteria was used to design the tethers. Since none existed, a criteria was written based on past experience for future tether programs.
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Tomlin, Donald D., Faile, Gwyn C., Hayashida, Kazuo B., Frost, Cynthia L., Wagner, Carole Y., Mitchell, Michael L., Vaughn, Jason A., Galuska, Michael J.. 1998-01-01. Space Tethers Design Criteria. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19980202360
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