| Title: | Medium Earth Orbit tether material strength assessment |
| Authors: | Robert Bernard, Author |
| Material Type: | ISU Individual Project |
| Publisher: | Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University, 2018 |
| Size: | 1 electronic resource (vii, 47 p.) / col. ill. |
| Bibliography note: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Languages: | English |
| Subjects: | Tethered satellites |
| Description: | Various tether missions have been launched by space agencies, such as NASA and ESA. ESA, in particular, by supporting the YES2 mission, enabled a collaboration between professional engineers and students to launch the largest tether in current history. Using information from the YES2 mission therefore as a baseline, this report demonstrates the inconsistencies that exist between mathematical equations available to statically analyze tethers. A set of these equations is selected and used to show that the International Space Station, in its current configuration, is unable to sustain the static loads imparted by a tether between 800 km to 6,500 km in length. |
| ISU program : | Master of Space Studies |
| Permalink: | https://isulibrary.isunet.edu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=10398 |
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