sky•hook. n. 1. a fanciful hook imagined to be suspended in the air.

What is the meaning of a skyhook?

noun. 1. a fanciful hook imagined to be suspended in the air. 2. any of various lifting devices, as one hung from a helicopter, designed to lift heavy loads to distances beyond the reach of a jib crane.

What is a skyhook in space?

A skyhook is a proposed momentum exchange tether that aims to reduce the cost of placing payloads into low Earth orbit. ... A skyhook differs from a geostationary orbit space elevator in that a skyhook would be much shorter and would not come in contact with the surface of the Earth.