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The Tethered Satellite System (TSS) is a joint National
Aeronautics and Space Administation (NASA) and Italian
Space Agency (ASI) project.

The goals of the TSS-1 mission were to demonstrate the
feasibility of deploying and controlling long tethers in space,
and to evaluate some of the unique applications of the TSS as a tool for research by conducting
exploratory experiments in space plasma physics.

Reflown on STS-75