Overview of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration tether activitiesNASA research concerning the use of tethers in space is reviewed, including joint research with the Italian Space Agency. Tether applications under consideration are described, such as a tethered fuel depot and a tethered gravity laboratory platform for the Space Station, providing artificial gravity to and from Mars, payload recovery and waste management, aerothermodynamic magnetospheric physics, and electrodynamic propulsion, braking, and power generation for the Space Shuttle. Also, tether flight demonstrations are examined, including the Small Expendable Deployer System, the Get-Away Tether Experiment, the Tether Elevator Crawler System, and the Kinetic Isolation Tether Experiment.
Document ID
19890052807
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Penzo, Paul A. (California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1989
Subject Category
Astronautics (General)
Report/Patent Number
AIAA PAPER 89-1548
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Conference on Tethers in Space - Toward Flight