It worked well but there was an arc from the line to the craft which
burned through the cable and the conductor was lost.

Big John wrote:

Roger

I think you might be right as I recall. I didn't throw out those facts
because it was so long ago I might have forgotten the details???

Big John

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:12:00 GMT, Roger Halstead
wrote:

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:33:33 -0500, Big John
wrote:

terra

Do you remember the Shuttle test where they unrolled a long wire and
let it fall down toward the earth with gravity. First test the drum
stuck and they couldn't unroll the wire.

Second try they got a lot of wire out but experiment didn't produce
what they expected. Don't remember the data published in AW&S.

Think the Italians provided the hardware and after the second failure
no more tries that were published.


I thought they fried the wore on the second try, or possibly it was on
some tethered experiment where the cable fried from the induced
voltage.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

Is this similar to what you propose? If so ,you might want to contact
NASA to get any papers they wrote on these experiments.



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