Tethered Despinning - Extensions Forum: SSI-List
Thread: Tethered Despinning - Extensions
# 15812 bycfrjlr@... on Oct. 1, 2001, 12:39 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
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> > "Yo weights" deployed on tethers are a common way to despin upper
> > stages
> > today.
> >
> > There are some interesting extensions of this idea which I have
> > been
> > musing over lately.
>
> Care to elaborate?
>
That is the idea of a tube attached to the tehter which feeds crushed material to the tip of the tether where
it is released.