harpoon

Why should the astronaut have all the fun? This idea may be unworkable for technical reasons but I'll ask anyway. Is it possible to make a ship based Grapple gun or Harpoon? This would anchor a ship to a station or a planet and resist pull effects (of gravity and tertiary). It would usable to...

first off i want to state that, apparently the idea of a physical towing linkage is not new. Tow Chains there are three parts to this idea: 1. the launcher the block can act like a unlinked missile launcher. the computer will have two slave ports. launch modifier, and ability. as the launch...