a. Mechanical hazards to the spacecraft and the debris hazards to other spacecraft associated with a tether that breaks due to electrical burn-out or other cause shall be analysed.
b. Effects of electrostatic sticking from static electricity or environmentally induced charging shall be analysed.
NOTE Other requirements for the design of a tether system lie outside of the scope of this standard, e.g.
• mechanical strength,
• outgassing,
• meteoroid/debris impact,
• radiation degradation,
• atomic Oxygen,
• thermal expansion, and
• twisting stresses