Seds 1
Small Expendable Deployer System
The system consisted of a small 10 kg deployer cylinder 33 cm long and a tiny
23 kg satellite (`end mass') of similar size. The satellite was connected to
the cylinder by a rope made of Spectra-1000 which was 0.75 mm in diameter and
20 km long. The cylinder remained attached to the Delta second stage rocket in
orbit.
Seds was developed and built by NASA-Marshall, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics, and Tether Applications of San Diego, CA. The end mass was
built by NASA-Langley.
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