TSS

Other Designations: Tethered Satellite System. Class: Technology. Type: Tether. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: Italy. Agency: ASI.

Test from shuttle of 20 km long tether; satellite unintentionally deployed when tether broke February 25 1996. Re-entered March 19.

Typical orbit: 181 km circular orbit, 28.5 deg inclination. Associated Launch Vehicle: Shuttle.

TSS Chronology

1996 February 22 - TSS-1 - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Perigee: 173 km (107 mi). Apogee: 189 km (117 mi). Inclination: 28.50 deg. Period: 88.10 min.
LEO. Tether deployment test; 20 km long tether; satellite unintentionally deployed when tether broke 2/25/96 Reentered Mar 19.

1996 February 25 - TSS tether breaks -
Test from shuttle of 20 km long tether; satellite unintentionally deployed when tether broke. Re-entered March 19.

Bibliography and Further Reading

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Report (Internet Newsletter), Harvard University, Weekly, 1989 to Present. Essential internet newsletter recording worldwide weekly space events. Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.

JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Accessed at: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.

NASA GSFC Orbital Parameters, .

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