Commercial Feasibility of Tether Based Orbital Transfer for Commercial Satellites, Space Station, and Lunar Base
Bruce Mackenzie Bruce Mackenzie, National Space Society, Mars Foundation, Gr
Mon Jan 22, Wed Jan 24, Mon Jan 29, 12-01:00pm, E40-308
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Review of commercial potential of tethers for transportation in space.
Tethers are strong cables which would hang from a spacecraft or rotate around it. They can be used to boost commercial spacecraft to a higher orbit, at great savings of fuel. And, they can be used to deliver supplies to a space station. Longer term uses are to send materials to and from a Lunar base, Mars, or asteroids. Tethers may
be the key to begin using resources in space, and have near term commercial use boosting small communication satellites
Contact: Bruce Mackenzie, E40-308, (781) 944-7027, BMackenzie@alum.mit.edu
Sponsor: Students for Exploration and Development of Space
Latest update: 24-Jan-2007
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