[FPSPACE] at the end of our tether :)

[Keith Gottschalk]

  As a lay-person, my guesses include 

1. static electricity (the demise of that Italian tether a few yrs
ago)
2. a vacuum which is sublimating the volatiles from any lubricant.

 Please let the engineers in this forum add others?

- Keith

>>>> Zeger Nuyens <dokter.nuyens at pandora.be> 09/26/07 2:14 PM >>>
>>
>>   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

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