From: Hans.Moravec@ROVER.RI.CMU.EDU (Hans.Moravec@ROVER.RI.CMU.EDU)
Subject: Re:Space tethers and Arthur C. Clarke 
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Date: 1989-05-21 18:46:59 PST 
 

The Italian-NASA tethered ionospheric probe was scheduled to
fly this year until the Challenger explosion. I read a new
date for it recently, perhaps 1991.  Here are some older
references on orbital tethers, technical and fictional:

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Y. Artsutanov, V Kosmos na Elektrovoze (To Space by Funicular Railway),
Komsomolskaya Pravda, July 31, 1960
(contents described in Lvov, Science 158, p 946, November 17, 1967).

J.D. Isaacs, A.C. Vine, H. Bradner, G.E. Bachus, Satellite Elongation
into a True "Sky-Hook", Science 151 p 682, February 11, 1966 and 152,
p 800, May 6, 1966.

Y. Artsutanov, (The Cosmic Wheel), Znanije-Sile (Knowledge is Power)
No. 7  p 25, 1969.

G. Polyakov, A Space "Necklace" About the Earth.
NASA technical memorandum TM-75174,
(translation of "Kosicheskoye 'Ozhere'ye' Zemli " in
Teknika Molodezhi, No. 4, 197, pp. 41-43)

J. Pearson, The Orbital Tower: A Spacecraft Launcher Using the Earth's
Rotational Energy, Acta Astronautica 2, p 785,  September/October 1975.

J. Pearson, Using The Orbital Tower to Launch Earth Escape Payloads Daily,
27'th IAF Congress, Anaheim, Ca., October 1976. AIAA paper IAF 76-123.

J. Pearson, Anchored Lunar Satellites for Cis-Lunar Transportation
and Communication, European Conference on Space Settlements and Space
Industries, London, England, September 20, 1977. in Journal of the
Astronautical Sciences.

H.P. Moravec, A Non-Synchronous Orbital Skyhook, 23rd AIAA
Meeting, The Industrialization of Space, San Francisco, Ca., October
18-20, 1977, also Journal of the Astronautical Sciences 25,
October-December, 1977.

Roger D. Arnold and Donald Kingsbury,  The Spaceport,
Part 1: Analog v99 #11  November 1979  pp 48:67  and
Part 2: Analog v99 #12  December 1979  pp 61:77

J. Pearson, Lunar Anchored Satellite Test, AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Conference,
Palo Alto, Ca., August 7-9, 1978, AIAA paper 78-1427.

H.P. Moravec, Skyhook!, L5 News, August 1978.

Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise,
    Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1978.

Charles Sheffield, The Web Between the Worlds, Ace SF, 1979.

Charles Sheffield, How to Build a Beanstalk,
    Destinies Vol 1 #4, Aug-Sep 79, pp 41:68,  Ace books.

Charles Sheffield, Skystalk, Destinies Vol 1 #4, Aug-Sep 79, pp 7:39

H.P. Moravec, Cable Cars in the Sky, in The Endless Frontier, Vol. 1,
Jerry Pournelle, ed., Grosset & Dunlap, Ace books, November 1979, pp. 301-322.

R.L. Forward and H.P. Moravec,  High Wire Act, Omni, Omni publications
international, New York, July 1981, pp. 44-47.

Charles Sheffield, Summertide, Destinies Vol 3 #2, Aug 81, pp 16:84

Report on the Utilization of the External Tanks of the Space
Transportation System, proceedings of a workshop held at the
UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, August 23-27, 1982,
under NASA contract  #NAS 8-35037 from the Marshall Space
Flight Center.  ** Section III: Tethers and External Tanks **