Robert P. Hoyt

Sonntag, 15. September 1968

Dr. Robert P. Hoyt (born September 15, 1968) is a physicist and engineer who is known for his work developing the architecture for in-space additive manufacture of spacecraft as well as for his invention of the . He also originated the concept, which combines momentum-exchange techniques with electrodynamic reboost propulsion to enable a bolo tether system to serve as a fully reusable in-space upper stage for boosting many payloads from LEO to GEO or lunar trajectories. He also has done work and collaborated with the late Robert L. Forward on electrodynamic space tethers for use for deorbiting space junk and interplanetary transport. He was one of the authors of a paper on using tethers for cis-lunar transportation. The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum included a Hoytether designe