Dynamics of Tethered Space Systems - Troger, Hans (Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) a Alpatov, A.P. a Beletsky, V.V. (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, RAN, Moscow, Russia) a Dranovskii, V.I. a Khoroshilov, V.S. a Pirozhenko, A.V. a Zakrzhevskii, A.E.

Tethered space systems involve connecting satellites in orbit around Earth using thin cables called tethers. There are a number of interesting applications for this concept. This text presents several models, focusing on the simplest but most important system, which consists of two satellites in orbit around the Earth.