Effect of tether deployment and climber motion in tethered satellite systems

Tether's stable deployment technology in space is expected to be used in various fields including space elevators. The major problems in operation of the tether satellite system is the rebound phenomenon in which the secondary satellite bounces back toward the main satellite due to the impact force at the completion of tether extension And the influence on the stability of the whole system due to the movement of the climber. The experiments so far show that the acceleration and deceleration of the tether extension, the acceleration and deceleration of the steady speed, the movement of the climber and the degree of the steady speed affect the rebound phenomenon The next step is to verify the stability of the whole system on a wider test bed. Therefore, in this paper, hydrostatic bearing type gravity compensator by using the tether extension and climber movement on two-dimensional plane is intended to consider experimentally the effect on the entire system.