NRO Orbiting Spacecraft Studies Tether Survivability

The agency that procures U.S. intelligence satellites is studying an orbiting tethered satellite system designed to complement a tether experiment flown on the space shuttle earlier this year. The National Reconnaissance Office's (NRO) acknowledgment of its leading role in development of the Tether...

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