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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[...]

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Space elevators: a history

David Raitt, Editor | United States : ISEC International Space Elevator Consortium | 2017

The book is laid out in chapters close to chronological. The major topics are separated out such that the reader can look at the history is stages. This means that there is some degree of overlap between the chapters, which are thus largely self[...]

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Space elevators : an assessment of the technological feasibility and the way forward

Peter A. Swan, Editor | Paris (France) : International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) | 2013

This book addresses the simple and complex issues that have been identified through the development of space elevator concepts over the last decade. The report begins with a summary of those ideas in Edwards' and Westling's book The Space Elevat[...]

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Space elevators : an assessment of the technological feasibility and the way forward

Peter A. Swan, Editor | United States : The Virginia Edition | 2013

This book addresses the simple and complex issues that have been identified through the development of space elevator concepts over the last decade. The report begins with a summary of those ideas in Edwards' and Westling's book The Space Elevat[...]

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Dynamics of tethered space systems

A. P. Alpatov ; et al. | Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group | Advances in engineering | 2010

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Space tethers and space elevators

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

Different uses of tethers, ropes or lines in space.

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Dynamic analysis of space tether missions

Eugene M Levin | [S.l.] : Univelt | Advances in the astronautical sciences | 2007

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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[...]

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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 [...]

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Tethers in space handbook

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

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TSS-1R mission failure investigation board : final report

[S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1996

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SAGE Stanford Artificial Gravity Experiment : Stanford International Mars Program Proposal for KSC Energia

Sergei Stoiko ; Robert J. Twiggs ; Michael L. Cooper ; Michael T. Hicks ; Chika Masuda ; Carlos G. Niederstrasser ; Michael D. Parrish ; Jeffery D. Tobin ; Walton R. Williamson 1995

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Dynamics of space tether systems

V. V. Beletskii ; Eugene M Levin ; American Astronautical Society | [S.l.] : Univelt | Advances in the astronautical sciences | 1993

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