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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 ...
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 ...
The experiment hardware was designed under a NASA Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) collaboration between Tethers Unlimited, Inc. and Stanford University, with TUI developing the tether, tether deployer, tether inspection subsystem, satellite avionics, and software, and Stanford students developing the satellite structures and assisting ...
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 ...
The company Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (founded by Robert Forward and Robert P. Hoyt) [12] has called this approach "Tether Launch Assist". [13] It has also been referred to as a space bolas. [14] The company's goals have drifted to deorbit assist modules and marine tethers as in 2020 though. [15] [16]
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 ...
Electrodynamic tethers are long conducting wires, such as one deployed from a tether satellite, which can operate on electromagnetic principles as generators, by converting their kinetic energy to electrical energy, or as motors, converting electrical energy to kinetic energy. [1]
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.