The deployment of a long tether to operate as a partial space elevator,starting from a nucleus in geostationary orbit,is studied.Uncontrolled deployment is an inherently unstable process because the center of orbit gr...
This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12102487);Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2019A1515111056);Discovery Grant(RGPIN-2018-05991)of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
A floating partial space elevator(PSE)is a PSE with a floating main satellite.This work aims to keep the orbital radius of the main satellite of a floating PSE in cargo transposition without the use of thrusts.A six-d...