Tether system for exchanging payloads between low earth orbit and the lunar surface

33rd Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Hoyt, Robert P ^a  

^a Tethers Unlimited Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; MOON; PROPULSION; TETHERLINES;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; EARTH ORBITS; ECONOMIC MEANS; LOW EARTH ORBITS; LUNAR SURFACE; LUNAR TRANSFERS; TETHER SYSTEM; TOTAL ENERGY;

ORBITS;

EID: 84962909565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

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3. Carroll, J.A, Preliminary Design of a 1 km/sec Tether Transport Facility, March 1991, Tether Applications Final Report on NASA Contract NASW-4461 with NASA/HQ.
4. Stern, M.O., Advanced Propulsion for LEOMoon Transport, NASA CR-172084, June 1988, California Space Institute Progress Report on NASA Grant NAG 9-186 with NASA/JSC.
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6. Bate, R.R., Mueller, D.D., White, J.E., Fundamentals of Astrodynamics, Dover, 1971, pp. 333-344.
7. Oldson, J, Carroll, J.A., “Potential Launch Cost Savings of a Tether Transport Facility, “ AIAA paper 95-2895, 31st Joint Propulsion Conference, July 1995.
8. Hoyt, R.P., Forward, R.L., LEO-Lunar Tether Transport System Study, Tethers Unlimited Final Report on contract S06-34444 to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, April 1997