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A skyhook is a proposed momentum exchange tether that aims to reduce the cost of placing payloads into space. A heavy orbiting station is connected to a cable which extends down towards the upper atmosphere. Payloads, which are much lighter than the station, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sky-hook , "imaginary device to hold things up," 1915, originally aviators' jargon, from sky (n.) + hook (n.). Applied from 1935 to actual device for lifting things into the air.
Usage examples of skyhook.
The best we could hope for, if the Skyhook does not arrive, is to remove some of the more vital systems from the airframe, then destroy it.
Skyhook does not arrive before the deadline expires - you will destroy the airframe completely.
Like the jobbers who flocked to the Moon and the Maldives when Lunar City and the Skyhook had to be built .
I was ready to board the Deimos skyhook, and believe me, I had to take a big loss as a result.
It was the Deimos skyhook, and the nacelle was one of the starport terminals that hauled passengers and cargo up to the little potato moon, 12,500 miles overhead.
Even the east-west and west-east mail satellites, which dropped their own skyhooks from orbits a little above, or below, synchronous orbit, were constrained to an equatorial run.
Theoretical models formulated of space elevators prior to the discovery of the Kharzh’ullan system relied upon ungrounded skyhooks that reached into the upper atmosphere, space tethers, or extensive cabling systems to counteract the gravitational effects a structure the size of an elevator would experience.
Luke saw the giant Star Destroyer's powerful beam strobe, saw it pierce the skyhook.
Skyhooks were, if not the most incredible of human engineering marvels, then certainly the most spectacular.
It's solar sail material harvested from the skyhook tree's leaves.
Several skyhooks have unfurled in equatorial orbit around the earth like the graceful fernlike leaves of sundews, ferrying cargo and passengers to and from orbit.