STAR team from University of Padova during the 2016 Drop Your Thesis! programme launch campaign at the ZARM Drop Tower in Bremen, Germany. <br /> <br />The team focused their experiment on controlling a filamentous tether during deployment and retrieval of a free floating probe, during a catapult launch of their experiment. <br /> <br />Controlling space tethers that have infinite degrees of freedom in microgravity are prone to getting tangled, thus novel mechanisms must be sought and tested. <br /> <br />STAR team will now spend several months to analyse the abundant amount of data gathered during the campaign, but a preliminary assessment shows that the system worked beyond expectations. <br /> <br />More about Drop Your Thesis! <br />http://www.esa.int/Education/Drop_Your_Thesis
