[FPSPACE] Firefly? (was Re: Italiamir)

David Anderman davida@cwo.com
Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:57:30 -0700


At 09:57 AM 10/22/00 -0400, Dwayne Allen Day wrote:

>Is there a point at which tethers are no longer viable?  If an object gets
>too low in the atmosphere, is the drag too great for a low-thrust system
>like a tether to overcome?


300 kilometers is about the lower limit for a tether to be able to overcome 
drag.