Space Rope Trick Experiment Goes Awry

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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[Anonymous Coward]

"Rope Trick" refers to either magic tricks or certain phenomena observed in nuclear explosions. Using rope to move loads is not a magic trick nor does it involve nuclear explosions so it is not a rope trick. Find a new term for your new technology where you transfer a load from one place to another with a cable.

Re:Tether Enabled SSTO

[MyLongNickName]

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