Using motorized tethers for payload orbital transfer

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 904-913

  Ziegler, Spencer W ^a,b   Cartmell, Matthew P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b AIAA   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITAL TRANSFER; TETHERLINES;

GEOSTATIONARY EARTH ORBIT; LOW EARTH ORBIT; MOTORIZED SPINNING TETHERS; PAYLOAD ORBITAL TRANSFER;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0035518665     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3762     Document Type: Article

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1. Tether Propulsion
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6. Tethers open new space options
7. Advantages of tether release of satellites from elliptic orbits
8. Effects of deployment rates and librations on tethered payload raising