tss-1rの実験には、tss deployer core equipment and satellite core equipment(dcore/score)、research on orbital plasma electrodynamics(rope)、research on electrodynamic tether effects(rete)、magnetic field experiment for tss missions(temag)、shuttle electrodynamic tether system(sets)、shuttle potential and return electron experiment(spree)、tether optical phenomena experiment(top)、investigation of electromagnetic emissions by the electrodynamic tether(emet)、observations at the earth's surface of electromagnetic emissions by tss(oesse)、investigation and measurement of dynamic noise in the tss(imdn)、theoretical and experimental investigation of tss dynamics(teid)、theory and modeling in support of tethered satellite applications(tmst)があった。