From: vince@offshore.ai (Vincent Cate)
Newsgroups: sci.space.tech
Subject: Re: Lunar Sample Return via Tether
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henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) wrote in message news:<HpK84n.I66@spsystems
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> I *think* I have seen rotating tethers for orbital samplers mentioned
> before, but I'm unable to locate a specific reference.

Oh well, we were not the first to come up with it.

At:
  http://www.uah.edu/library/archives/forward/BusinessBio.html

It mentions a "Tether Assisted Planetoid Sampler" study by Forward and Hoyt.
I can not find this study on the net, nor mention of it in any
other paper on the net.

> It certainly does have potential.

And idea that deserves better press coverage.  :-)

  -- Vince