Moon & Mars Orbiting Spinning Tether Transport - Tethers Unlimited

Appendix F: Tether Boost Facility Design Final Reportuse stored energy and could end quickly enough that heat buildup is notcatastrophic. (Obviously this test would be synergistic with the brief powerconversion demo outlined above.) To measure lifetime, the same hardware couldrun for months or years at low power with all the current going through a singleFEAC rather than the large, high-power array. This test would use PV arrays forpower and would provide modest cooling. The combination of the high-power testand the lifetime test would bring high-power FEAC technology to TRL 6.F-21