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Space Rope Trick Experiment Goes Awry

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the harder-than-lassoing-cattle dept.

Tjeerd writes "An experiment that envisaged sending a parcel from space to Earth on a 30-kilometre tether fell short of its goal yesterday when the long fibre rope did not fully unwind, Russian Mission Control said. It was intended to deliver a spherical capsule, called Fotino, attached to the end of the tether back to Earth — a relatively simple and cheap technology that could be used in the future to retrieve bulkier cargoes from space.""

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  1. Re:Tether Enabled SSTO by MyLongNickName · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Forget how to rely to the story instead of the unrelated First Post. Comment should be modded off topic (as mine should be too)

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