NRO eyes follow-on tether experiments

The National Reconnaissance Office is considering additional tests using tethered satellites after initial results from the Tether Physics and Survivability (TiPS) program have validated some of the agency's basic assumptions about the tether concept. "We need at least two more solid experiments" to...

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