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Space Tethers and Space Elevators
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036aXD-US
037beng
077a309353726 Buchausg. u.d.T.: ‡Pelt, Michel van, 1972 - : Space tethers and space elevators
087q978-0-387-76555-6
100bvan Pelt, Michel
331 Space Tethers and Space Elevators
410 New York, NY
412 Springer-Verlag New York
425 2009
425a2009
433 Online-Ressource (digital)
451bSpringerLink. Bücher
501 Includes bibliography and index
517 148531_1_En_FM_OnlinePDF.pdf; Untitled; 148531_1_En_1_Chapter_OnlinePDF.pdf; 148531_1_En_2_Chapter_OnlinePDF.pdf; 148531_1_En_3_Chapter_OnlinePDF.pdf; 148531_1_En_4_Chapter_OnlinePDF.pdf; 148531_1_En_5_Chapter_OnlinePDF.pdf; 148531_1_En_6_Chapter_OnlinePDF.pdf; 148531_1_En_7_Chapter_OnlinePDF.pdf; FM.pdf; 148531_1_En_8_Chapter_OnlinePDF.pdf
527 Buchausg. u.d.T.: ‡Pelt, Michel van, 1972 - : Space tethers and space elevators
540aISBN 978-0-387-76556-3
540aISBN 978-0-387-76555-6
700b|629.47
700c|TL789
700d|520#DNB
700g1271570009 ZO 8000
750 Michel van Pelt explains for the first time the principle of space tethers: what they are and how they can be used in space. He introduces non-technical space enthusiasts to the various possibilities and feasibility of space tethers including the technological challenges and potential benefits. He illustrates how, because of their inherent simplicity, space tethers have the potential to make space travel much cheaper, while ongoing advances in tether material technology may make even seemingly far-fetched ideas a reality in the not too distant future.
753 On Earth, tethers or ropes or lines are used primarily to bind things to each other. In Space, tethers can also be used to attach spacecraft to each other, but this technology involves much more than simply tying things together. Ropes can also be used to climb, to reach places higher up – maybe all the way into space and in fact this concept exists in the form of a space elevator, consisting of a long, incredibly strong cable that stretches from the Earth’s surface into space. Solar powered 'climber' machines, which are already under development, could use such a cable to haul cargo into orbit. Space tethers could also be used as a means of transportation, to swing from one place to another. In stories on Earth, Tarzan uses liana vines to swing from tree to tree, and there are many serious ideas for using tethers in space in a somewhat similar way: swinging satellites into another orbit, or even passing them from tether to tether all the way to the Moon and Mars! Although this sounds like science fiction, many space missions using tethers have already flown. Most of them have been relatively small and experimental, but in the near future space tethers have the potential to revolutionize space flight.
902s 212150529 Fesselsatellit
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081 Space Tethers and Space Elevators
100 Springer E-Book
125aElektronischer Volltext - Campuslizenz
655e$uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76556-3
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