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I don't understand how this proposed system would work. Doesn't accelerating some payload into its orbit drain inertia from the skyhook? If we need to continu
by loeg 3y ago
I don't understand how this proposed system would work. Doesn't accelerating some payload into its orbit drain inertia from the skyhook? If we need to continue supplying the skyhook with new inertia, how is that better than just boosting payloads?
- woleium 3y agothere is an assumption that you will be deorbiting a similar mass on the return, which would mostly address the balance (with the exception of energy lost to atmospheric drag)
- pdonis 3y agoIf you mean the system shown in the illustration in the article, the tether's orbit does change: the illustration shows the tether's orbit changing after it catches the payload and again after it releases the payload. What is weird to me is that the tether's trajectory is shown as curving upward instead of downward. That doesn't make sense to me.
- aaron695 3y ago[dead]