{"id":701,"date":"2017-01-24T10:35:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T15:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/?p=701"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:40:19","slug":"first-ever-experimental-validation-of-tethered-detumbling-of-space-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/2017\/first-ever-experimental-validation-of-tethered-detumbling-of-space-debris\/","title":{"rendered":"First Ever Experimental Validation of Tethered Detumbling of Space Debris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        First Ever Experimental Validation of Tethered Detumbling of Space Debris\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>At this year&#8217;s <em>AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference<\/em>, Kirk Hovell presented  the first ever experimental demonstration of detumbling a spinning space debris using visco-elastic tethers. Compared to the currently-accepted tether configuration proposed by the European Space Agency, Kirk&#8217;s innovative sub-tether strategy is proven to be more effective at detumbling a spinning space debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Kirk&#8217;s outstanding presentation of his work on space debris tether capture was recognized at this conference by a <span style=\"color: #ce152a;\">Best Presentation in Session Award<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More details on Kirk&#8217;s research can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/publications\/\">here<\/a> and videos of the experiments can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BgsxlKoeEik\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirk Hovell is currently a Master&#8217;s student at Carleton&#8217;s Spacecraft Robotics and Control Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Steve Ulrich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this year&#8217;s AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Kirk Hovell presented the first ever experimental demonstration of detumbling a spinning space debris using visco-elastic tethers. Compared to the currently-accepted tether configuration proposed by the European Space Agency, Kirk&#8217;s innovative sub-tether strategy is proven to be more effective at detumbling a spinning space debris. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"earth-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}