/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16081634
momentum exchange tethers can be built from fishing line. No seriously, actual fishing line a tackle shop would sell.
>>16081201
There are two problems with tethers: deploying them and the fact that they're huge navigation hazards. At best, a tether's a satellite eating disk hundreds of kilometers in diameter. At worst, it's a sphere hundreds of kilometers in diameter. And I do mean satellite eating. Tethers can be made to tank collisions with satellites. You just use multiple tethers arranged wider than the satellites you expect to collide with. The satellite gets FUCKED, but enough tether strands survive that it can be remade.