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A Modular Momentum-exchange/electrodynamic-reboost Tether System Architecture
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hoyt, Robert Preis Slostad, Jeffrey T. Frank, Samuel S. |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | The Momentum-Exchange/Electrodynamic-Reboost (MXER) Tether Boost Facility concept has the potential to achieve significant reductions in launch costs for a number of space missions. In this document, we investigate the design of the MXER Tether Boost Facility and develop a highly modular architecture that will enable the system to be designed, built, launched, operated, and maintained at low cost. Using this modular approach, we develop a concept design for a MXER Tether Boost Facility optimized for boosting 2,000 kg payloads from a 250 km drop-off orbit to geostationary transfer orbits. To enable it to boost multiple payloads, the system incorporates a propellantless electrodynamic tether reboost system that enables it to restore the orbital energy transferred to each payload within a period of 45 days. Based upon this concept design, we have developed a mass estimate preliminary configuration design, and found that this modular MXER Tether Boost Facility will have a mass and stowed volume that will enable it to be launched by a SeaLaunch Zenit-2 rocket. Once the system has been deployed on-orbit, its modular design enables its capacity to be expanded in a "bootstrap" manner. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.tethers.com/papers/MXERJPC2003Paper.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
