Terminator Tape Deorbit Module
Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (AMERGINT)
Compact, lightweight passive deorbit module that deploys a long conductive tape to increase drag and hasten orbital decay, flight-proven on CubeSats, NanoSats and small microsats.
Technical specifications
- Deployment
- Passive; commanded release or optional battery-powered timer module
- Mechanism
- Deploys a long, thin conductive tape to increase atmospheric/electrodynamic drag
- Sizes available
- CubeSat, NanoSat, and Small MicroSat configurations
- Flight heritage
- Flight-proven (Flight Heritage designation on multiple missions)
About
The Terminator Tape Deorbit Module is a compact, lightweight module that enables a small satellite to comply with post-mission orbital lifetime restrictions with minimal mass, volume, footprint, cost and risk impact to the host program. Upon command from the spacecraft, or from an optional battery-powered timer module, the Terminator Tape opens and deploys a long, thin conductive tape. The tape interacts with the space environment to induce increased drag on the spacecraft, hastening its orbital decay through an entirely passive method. TUI has flight-heritage Terminator Tape modules sized for CubeSats, NanoSats and small microsats.
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