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Report of the Artificial Gravity PanelTethers 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.
Document ID
19850012055
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Butler, G.
(McDonnell-Douglas Corp. Saint Louis, MO, United States)
Freitag, B.
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Doxiadis, D.
(Rockwell Corp. California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, United States)
Criswell, D. R.
(Calspace)
Tang, C.
(JPL)
Fielder, D.
(NASA Johnson Space Center)
Gille, J.
(Martin Marietta)
Penzo, P.
(JPL)
Kroll, K.
(NASA Johnson Space Center)
Napolitano, L.
(Naples Univ.)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
March 1, 1985
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Marshall Space Flight Center Appl. of Tethers in Space, Vol. 2
Subject Category
Aerospace Medicine
Accession Number
85N20365
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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