Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) is an American private aerospace company headquartered near Seattle, Washington, which performs research and development of new products and technologies for space, sea, and air.
Other projects he has been involved with are an invention to drain the Van Allen radiation belts, development of robotic arms for small spacecraft, and development of tether-based methods to enable tiny nanosatellites to capture and de-spin asteroids and space debris objects. Hoyt is the CEO and Chief Scientist of Tethers Unlimited, Inc.
Tethers Unlimited, Inc. Seattle, WA United States De-Orbiting Devices, Deployable Solar Arrays, Propulsion Systems, Radio Communications, and Robotics RUAG Space: Switzerland Structures, Fairings, Mechanisms, Opto-Electronics AB 360 Space: United States
A momentum exchange tether is a kind of space tether that could theoretically be used as a launch system, or to change spacecraft orbits. Momentum exchange tethers create a controlled force on the end-masses of the system due to the pseudo-force known as centrifugal force. While the tether system rotates, the objects on either end of the tether ...
In 1994, he co-founded the company Tethers Unlimited, Inc. with Robert P. Hoyt, where he served as chief scientist and chairman until 2002. Much of his research focused on the leading edges of speculative physics but was always grounded in what he believed humans could accomplish.
Tether properties and materials are dependent on the application. However, there are some common properties. To achieve maximum performance and low cost, tethers would need to be made of materials with the combination of high strength or electrical conductivity and low density. All space tethers are susceptible to space debris or micrometeoroids.
The Multi-Application Survivable Tether (MAST) experiment was an in-space investigation designed to use CubeSat spacecraft connected by tethers to better understand the survivability of tethers in space. [1] It was launched as a secondary payload on a Dnepr rocket on 17 April 2007 into a 98°, 647 x 782 km orbit. The MAST payload incorporated ...
This propulsion system is being developed by Tethers Unlimited, Inc. The MPS-130 engine by Aerojet Rocketdyne burns a novel ionic liquid propellant called hydroxylammonium nitrate (NH 3 OHNO 3). It is a fuel/oxidizer blend also known as AF-M315E that is about 50% more efficient than traditional hydrazine, and is non-toxic. [6]