Re: Another Space Tether Experiment Disaster



On 28 Sep 2007 09:59:50 -0400, in a place far, far away, Jim Kingdon
<kingdon@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way
as to indicate that:

lgroner writes:

Can we focus on what the issues are that lead to the high mortality
rate of tether tether experiments.

How about "hard to test them on the ground"?

That's the big one which springs to my mind, anyway.

This is an excellent example of how more routine and lower-cost access
to space could quickly advance a technology.
.



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