The Terminator Tether™: Autonomous deorbit of LEO spacecraft for space debris mitigation

38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Hoyt, Robert P ^a   Forward, Robert L ^a,b  

^a Tethers Unlimited Inc   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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