Cartmell, M. and McInnes, C.R. and McKenzie, D. (2004) Proposals for an Earth-Moon mission design based on motorised momentum exchange tethers. In: Proceedings of the XXXII Summer School on Advanced Problems in Mechanics, APM 2004, St Petersburg. IPME RAS.
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In order to launch mankind into deep space a staging base must be built on the moon, or in space, to gain experience of the extra-terrestrial environment and to test the critical technologies needed. In view of this, this paper outlines a low-cost, reusable method for payload transfer to the moon using a Motorized Momentum Exchange Tether. The performance of the Motorized Momentum Exchange Tether (MMET) is predicted by simulation of the equations of motion of a pair of identical propulsion tethers emanating from the rotor of a central motorized facility with two identical payloads, one at the end of each tether.
| Item type: | Book Section |
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| ID code: | 6521 |
| Keywords: | space travel, moon, space flight, propulsion systems, control systems, Mechanical engineering and machinery, Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Subjects: | Technology > Mechanical engineering and machinery Technology > Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Department: | Faculty of Engineering > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2008 |
| Last modified: | 29 May 2012 10:34 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/6521 |
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