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Shuttle tethered satellite system development program
Space Systems Technology Conference, 1984This paper contains an overview of the Shuttle Orbiter-based Tethered Satellite System which is being jointly developed by the United States of America and Italy. Operation of the system is described including interfaces with the orbiter and crew, and with the Johnson Space Center Mission Control Center and Payload Operations Control Center.
D. CROUCH, M. VIGNOLI
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Modelling, Dynamics and Control of Tethered Satellite Systems
Nonlinear Dynamics, 2006zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Krupa, M. +6 more
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Coordinated control of tethered satellite cluster systems
AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, 2001We propose the concept of Tethered Satellite Cluster Systems. The system consists of the satellites connected by tethers, and keeps and changes the formation with active tension/length control of the tether. The purpose of the system is the saving of the thruster fuel required for the coordinated mission and the improvement of the control precision ...
Osamu Mori, Saburo Matunaga
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Current collection model on tether satellite system
28th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 1990Results are reported from numerical simulations of current collection by a tethered satellite moving in the earth magnetic field. The focus is on the instruments of the Research on Orbital Plasma Electrodynamics (ROPE) experiment planned for the TSS-1 mission (scheduled launch 1991).
K. HWANG +3 more
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Estimation and control of tethered satellite systems
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 1995This paper describes the analysis of a tethered system during the station-keeping phase. The system is composed of two small satellites connected by a long tether. The satellites are modeled as particles, and the tether is represented by eight rigid, massive rods. The angles between adjacent elements can vary with time.
Ehud Netzer, Thomas R. Kane
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Gravity Gradiometry from the Tethered Satellite System
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1985Measurement of the gradient of the gravitational acceleration from a satellite platform is likely to provide the next improvement in knowledge of the Earth's gravity field after the upcoming Geopotential Research Mission (GRM). Observations from the subsatellite of a Tethered Satellite System (TSS) would increase sensitivity and resolution due to the ...
Gordon Gullahorn +2 more
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Periodic motion in the tethered satellite system
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 1996The tethered satellite system (TSS) operating in an elliptic orbit may have a periodic motion. The configuration and stability of the limit cycle depend on the control algorithm and the orbital eccentricity. The size of the limit cycle increases as the orbital eccentricity increases.
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Development status of first Tethered Satellite System
24th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 1986An MOU between NASA and Italian research organizations has assigned the responsibilities for the development, payload integration, launch and operation of a Tethered Satellite System (TSS). The TSS will include a deployer mounted on a Spacelab pallet, science equipment on a customized mission support structure and a satellite connected to the Orbiter ...
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Stabilizing tethered satellite systems using space manipulators
Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'94), 2002The use of space manipulators to stabilize a two-body tethered satellite system (TSS) during the stationkeeping and retrieval phases, is considered. The uncontrolled motion of the system in the stationkeeping phase is marginally stable, while during the retrieval phase it is unstable.
M.J. Sadigh, A.K. Misra
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Tethered Satellite System Deployer Flight Thermal Performance
SAE Technical Paper Series, 1993<div class="htmlview paragraph">The Tethered Satellite System (TSS) is a Space Shuttle payload that was flown on July 31, 1992. Though anomalies prevented full deployment, the duration of the mission was approximately as planned, so it was possible to assess system thermal performance.
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