dietz@SLB-DOLL.CSNET (Paul Dietz) (01/07/86)
The Tuesday NY Times's (1/7/86) Science News section's feasture article is on novel launchers, primarily concentrating on tethers and skyhooks. The illustration shows a nonsynchronous skyhook. Launch Loops and other systems are mentioned. Separately, the paper reports that NOAA-8 has been lost in polar orbit. NORAD reports detecting debris in its orbit -- a victim of collision with space junk? The paper also has an anti-space station editorial ("Adrift in Space", first editorial page). It supports automated probes instead.