Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!carroll From: carroll@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: StarDate: October 25 Tethered S Message-ID: <15700027@uiucdcsb> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 16:30:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.15700027 Posted: Tue Nov 12 16:30:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 00:47:24 EST References: <1843@hao.UUCP> Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:hao.UUCP:1843:uiucdcsb:15700027:000:506 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!carroll Nov 12 15:30:00 1985 You could use it to boost to a higher orbit; just put some ion engines on the satellite, and use the electricity gained to boost. You get the energy from the Earth's rotation, so it would make the day slightly longer (snicker). This was the subject of a story in Analog not too long ago; unfortunately I don't remember the title or issue. It concerned a space station constructed of two rafts of Shuttle ET's, tethered. (Made a nice place to land, since there was a small effective gravity on either end).