What does TS stand for?

Tethered Satellite

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The 22 session topics include space debris and planetary defense, orbit determination and tracking, attitude dynamics and control, and tethered satellites.

Spaceflight mechanics 2007; proceedings; 2v. (CD-ROM included)

The same Tethered Satellite System flew aboard a shuttle in 1992, but the tether snagged like a tangled fishing line after unreeling less than 300 meters.

Short circuit severed satellite tether

Italian tethered satellite lost in space, shuttle Columbia's astronauts turned today to the other half of their cargo: a slew of science studies.

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and Italian researchers who had poured years into the tethered satellite system were crushed.

SO CLOSE, AND THEN: TETHERED SATELLITE SNAPS LINE, IS LOST

NASA and the Italian Space Agency cosponsor another mission, the Tethered Satellite System, also slated for a February launch.

New year in space science: explorations for '96

The crew has spent nearly two years training in simulators for all sorts of emergencies: a tethered satellite swinging like a wayward pendulum, bobbing like an out-of-control yo-yo, whirling like a skip rope, or just plain stuck.

SHUTTLE WILL TRY AGAIN TO FLY TETHERED SATELLITE

Investigators have attacked the nuts and bolts of the problems encountered during deployment of the Tethered Satellite System (SN: 8/15/92, p.

Bolt jammed tether's reel

The mission's main objective is to deploy and retrieve the Italian Tethered Satellite System.

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