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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.
Tethers Unlimited was founded in 1994 by Rob Hoyt and the late science-fiction author Robert L. Forward, initially with the idea of developing tethers as power-generating and orbit-changing tools ...
Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited will have its technology for deorbiting space debris put to its most ambitious test next year, during a satellite mission that will be conducted in league ...
Smart satellite bus provider. Spacecraft manufacturing and integration services, for small satellites (50–250 kg). Hughes Aircraft: United States purchased by Boeing: IHI Corporation: Japan In-Space Missions [8] United Kingdom Launching first satellite in Q2 2020 Innovative Solutions in Space [9] Netherlands 490 CubeSats Libre Space ...
Hoyt is the CEO and Chief Scientist of Tethers Unlimited, Inc. Hoyt also co-founded ScienceOps in 2007, a company that develops custom scientific algorithms and software for a wide range of industries, including biotech, online advertising, and aerospace. ScienceOps was acquired by Acquisio in 2012.
Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited built the device, which is about the size of a mini fridge and is known as the Refabricator, in cooperation with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in ...
NASA tether overview; Tethers Unlimited Incorporated "Tethers In Space Handbook" M. L. Cosmo and E. C. Lorenzini 3rd ed., December 1997 Archived 2007-10-06 at the Wayback Machine; NASA IAC report on orbital systems; SpaceTethers.com, space tether simulator applet; USA National Public Radio – Space Tethers: Slinging Objects in Orbit? ESA ...
The YES2 was a 36 kg student-built tether satellite, part of ESA's Foton-M3 microgravity mission. The YES2 satellite employed a 32 km tether to deorbit a small re-entry capsule, "Fotino." [30] [31] [32] The YES2 satellite was launched on 14 September 2007 from Baikonur. The communications system on the capsule failed, and the capsule was lost ...