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Published online 26 September 2007 | Nature 449, 387 (2007) | doi:10.1038/449387a
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Dropping a line from space
Tether offers down-to-Earth approach to payload delivery.
As Nature went to press, scientists were scrambling to locate a small capsule from space now believed to be somewhere in Kazakhstan. The capsule is part of an ambitious experimental space-mail delivery system that aimed to use a 30-kilometre-long satellite tether — the longest yet.
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