ExpTetherWorkSpace

Title: Exponential Tether Deployment
[Cover Img]	About: Moderator: Blaise Gassend Created: July 26, 2008 Modified: July 26, 2008	Tags: This is a collaborative article Discipline(s): Wiki, Engineering

Exponential Tether Deployement

The concept of pulling tether up from the ground for the deployment is proposed. The deployment of the initial ribbon from GEO is the same but once the ribbon touches Earth a second ribbon is attached and then a ribbon with a continually increasing cross section is pulled up to GEO. This method has the potential to be much quicker than the baseline method and provide a better quality ribbon in the end - no splicing. The primary issue is that it requires higher strength material.

Development work:

1. Calculations on the basic scenario - already done by Gassend
2. Study of safety factor impact
3. Study of material strength impact
4. Overall system engineering study
5. Hardware performance requirements
6. Full list of issues.