Tethers suggested as low-cost alternative to RLV upper stages
A senior NASA scientist has suggested to the three industry teams working on proposals for the X-33 testbed that tether deployment systems could be a low-cost alternative to upper stages for raising the altitude of payloads orbited by reusable launch vehicles (RLVs). Cutting the cost of placing...
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