On 25 September, students around the world watched with bated breath as their creation, the second Young Engineers Satellite (YES2) experiment, reached its dramatic conclusion. A day before the ...

There is a re-examination of space tethers and skyhooks to find near terms use cases. Harsimony at Greaterwrong.com provides the analysis of value for tethers when we have a lot of space launches and ...

On Oct. 14, 2024, an X account claimed a photo showed an astronaut performing the first spacewalk without a safety tether linked to a spacecraft. "This iconic photograph is still considered one of the ...

NASA and the Spaceward Foundation announced the results of the 2005 Beam Power Challenge and Tether Challenge. Eleven teams competed in the two competitions over the weekend at NASA’s Ames Research ...

Sustainability in space and the fight against the accumulation of waste produced in Earth orbit are the objectives pursued by PERSEI Space, a company whose partners include two researchers from ...