Saving Mir with a rope trick.

Saving Mir with a rope trick.

Using a fabled ?skyhook? of engineering folklore (known as firefly), Russia's ailing Mir space station may soon lift itself by its own bootstraps into a higher, more stable orbit. That feat, though, is raising fears at NASA that the development of its supposed replacement, the International Spa...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 37, 7 (2000).
Main Author: Oberg, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Earth's ionosphere.
Earth's magnetic field.
Mir space station.
MirCorp.
Current-carrying wire.
Electrodynamic tether.
Electrons.
Force.
Propulsion technology.
Stable orbit.
Thin wire.