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This picture is an artist's concept of an orbiting vehicle using the Electrodynamic Tethers Propulsion System....
This is an artist's concept of an orbiting space vehicle in the Jovian system using an electrodynamic tether...
This photograph shows two Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) engineers, Mark Vaccaro (left) and Ken Welzyn, testing...
Pictured is an artist's concept of NASA's Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System experiment (ProSEDS). ProSEDS...
NASA's Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System experiment (ProSEDS) will demonstrate the use of an...
An STS-75 onboard photo of the Tethered Satellite System-1 Reflight (TSS-1R) atop its extended boom. The TSS-1R was...
An STS-75 onboard photo of the Tethered Satellite System-1 Reflight (TSS-1R) atop its extended boom. The TSS-1R was...
Sharing this scene with a half-moon is the Tethered Satellite System (TSS), in a photo captured onboard the STS-46....
A crewmember aboard the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis (STS-46) used a 70mm handheld camera to capture this medium...
This STS-46 onboard photo is of the Tethered Satellite System-1 (TSS-1) being deployed from its boom as it is...
STS046-S-001 (May 1992) --- Designed by the crew members assigned to the flight, the crew patch depicts the space...