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tie the tether to something that can spin in opposition to the twist (a wheel or a gimbal).



sure, but you can't turn the actual wire itself indefinitely or it will shear eventually


You can just use a slip ring[1] at one or both ends (along with a whole bunch of axial thrust bearings, I imagine).

There are some neat (and very non-RoHS) slip ring implementations that use a series of liquid mercury filled channels to sidestep the brush wear issue, but I don't know that would be useful here, based on rotation speeds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_ring




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