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Lifeline for the ISS and Future Tethers (LIFT)

Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University | 2018

"One promising possibility is the re-use of the ISS as part of a 6500 km tether system from LEO to MEO. This presents an interesting synergy with questions of the ISS’s future and would serve as an ideal first demonstration of such a large space[...]

E-resource

Space tethers and space elevators

Michel Van Pelt | [S.l.] : Copernicus Books | 2009

Different uses of tethers, ropes or lines in space.

Lunar space elevators for cislunar space development : phase 1 final technical report

jerome Pearson, Author | Mount Pleasant : Star Technology and Research | 2005

This report proposes the lunar space elevator as a revolutionary method for facilitating development of cis-lunar space. The concept combines lunar space elevators with solar-powered robotic climbing vehicles, a system for lunar resource recover[...]

E-resource

Hypersonic airplane space tether orbital launch system : phase 1 final report

NASA, Office of Space Flight, Advanced Programs, Author | [S.l.] : The Boeing Company | 2000

The Boeing Company - Phantom Works has led a team in a Phase I study which has shown the technical feasibility of a completely new concept for moving payloads and passengers from the surface of the Earth into low Earth orbit at low cost and low [...]

E-resource

Tethers in space handbook

E.C. Lorenzini, Editor ; M.L. Cosmo, Editor | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA CR | 1997

E-resource