[FPSPACE] 'Fotino' deployed, stuck in orbit?

[Zeger Nuyens]

>
>   So far, not one tether experiment has been belayed with 100% success.
> Let us hope we will get more budgets for practising. At least before the
> ISS drops to 250 or 150 kms altitude!
>   
> Keith
An obvious question would be: What makes it so difficult? I mean, what's 
de difference in reeling off a few hunderd yards and let's say 20 
kilometers? After all, it is not that hi-tech.Do they need someone 
pulling on the far end?

Zeger