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Article #602Re: Shuttle Tether Experiment
From: Brent Buckner
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 16:44
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 16:44
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In article <1992Aug2.212210.8116@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> manuel@space.ualberta.ca (John Manuel) writes: > >The opposite should also be possible: use solar panels to generate >a large DC voltage and apply it to an appropriately positioned tether. >The tether will (slowly!) lift the shuttle to a higher orbit. > >Could be handy... just think of all of the satellites that have >succumbed to the small but steady force of atmospheric drag which >could have used a small but steady force to keep them in orbit. > >-- >John R. Manuel Department of Physics, University of Alberta >manuel@space.ualberta.ca Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA, T6G 2J1 >Office: (403) 492-2526 (NeXTMail OK) Fax: (403) 492-0714 cf. "Tank Farm Dynamo" by David Brin -- at Bell-Northern Research voice: (613) 765-2739 Canada Post: P.O. Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa, Canada, K1Y 4H7 I do not claim that BNR holds these views.
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!cunews!nrcnet0!bnrgate!bcars267!bucknerb From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner) Subject: Re: Shuttle Tether Experiment Message-ID: <1992Aug3.164425.12016@bnr.ca> Sender: news@bnr.ca (usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: bcars188 Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada References: <15h9k1INN9pe@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Aug2.212210.8116@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 16:44:25 GMT Lines: 22