Tether Dynamics and Satellite Launch

Published 2025-05-12 · Duration 5:49 · Video file (27 MB)

Tether dynamics and satellite launch in Columbia's cargo bay, demonstrating Tether's potential for electricity generation and propulsion.

Transcript
Commander Indiana reported earlier that the Tether apparently broke inside at the boom in Columbia's cargo bay with only about 10 meters of Tether left attached in the cargo bay. We have an image. Okay, what you're seeing now, we were using the 350. If you're from UUSH in the picture. The Department of Jazz, good image. Okay, this is taken for the UUSP-150. Melavita Land. We were a photographic mistake with the Tether, and you can see it just starting to go black now. Unfortunately, it all the excitement, somebody bumped the camera and we lost it. Okay, and that's the view that we had of it. As it was drifting away, we had it for a bit of the focal portion set. Yes, sir, well, those are some Tether dynamics we did not want to see. Well, well, we have demonstrated that you can generate a lot of electricity with Tether, and unfortunately, we've also demonstrated that you can use Tether as to launch a satellite and fill much higher orbit. And fight of concurors, that was one of our objectives, two of our objectives, at least. In fact, we can see it picked up about an 80-foot per second boost. Could I do you see any propellant? Okay, and there's a sunward setting. Can I get me locked out? 46 nautical miles of one another. The crew, first saw the satellite, when it was 150 nautical miles distant. That during the past sunrise, during this sunrise, at this view shows a satellite again here in the center of the screen. With that 12 nautical miles of Tether connected to it, at present the two nautical miles apart. Columbia now ahead of the satellite, continue to separate from it at a rate of 335 nautical miles per orbit. We can still see it on our body to the very faint satellite line. We're getting smaller and smaller than the satellite. We still see it with you. It's remarkably straight. Thank you, Cloud. Range 113. Okay, Cloud, we see it now. Okay, we set this trade segment under the same radius of the whole length of the segment. Right now we don't really see the satellite itself, that's a straight segment in the sky. Okay, we see the satellite now. It's nice to see the satellite. We see the satellite now. It's like a right spot at the end of the day there. On the other end, there's also a way to the right spot, which is maybe in accumulation of the 7 nautical miles now from Columbia.
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