I have a few questions about extending a tethered "selfie bot"
If you have a tethered camera which uses the tether as its power source which is out in front of the scope, wouldn't it be able to "stare" back at the Business Side of the mullet and stream the Party back to earth?
Or does a teathered bot risk messing with the orbit of the scope?
How much actual pull strength is requireed per kilo to re-orient something in space, meaning: How easily could say an astronaught pull on a cable and change the orientation of an object of much larger mass?
What if there were a gyro-ratchet:
Gyros that spin, and are tethered to a thing. There are multiple of them and they "yank" a small amount by spinning their gyro/flywheel a bit to initiate a pull... but there are many of these extending off tethers to orient something...
What if the tethers are like a flat ribbon cable of super thin solar collecting "flat noodles" - they provide power to the orienting gyros...
but how do you untangle things in space if stuff goeas awry...
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Maybe the craft only deploys gyros, via tethers, when it needs alignment - re-pointing... and reels the gyro back in when done...
or reels them back out when the tether should use solar to trickle re-charge the gyro battery.
But that's literally all we would be doing... imagining... You could accomplish exactly the same thing by leaving the lens cap on a camera here on earth. It would see just as much of the interesting parts of Webb as a camera 20m beyond Webb's orbit looking back at it.
Totally not related to the thread, but I think you would like looking into certain aspects of etymology...
Specifically the terms HollyWood (where that comes from is Pagan Druids, as that is where they took their Wands from which CAST SPELLS... Tele-vision, broadCASTING, Programming -- etc, its all there...
Spelling - to create/cast - cast as into formation....
