Dynamics of Tethered Space Systems

by V.S. Khoroshilov, V.V. Beletsky, V.I. Dranovskii, et al.

During many of the earliest American and Russian space missions, experiments were performed using cables to connect people and objects to spacecraft in orbit. These attempts generated considerable information about the formation of tethered systems and basic problems with tether orientation and gravity-gradient stabilization. During the 1970s, interest in tethered space systems (TSS) came to the forefront with an international project that involved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138117935
• ISBN13: 9781138117938
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 245 Pages