ple and reliable method is the method based on using of the gravitational force field. The main objective of the most scenarios of the tether operating is control of its angular momentum, which defines modes of tether motion. Deployment of a tether at the expense of a jet force is less preferable, since it demands considerable fuel expenditure, and complicates the system essentially. The majority of known methods used for construction of control laws of a state of a space tether are based on attempts to match some control law, allowing solving the problem in view. Thus it appears more often that use of such a control leads to appearance of undesirable effects. So, Kissel's law for deployment or law of exponential deployment result in the tether deployment with alignment to a local vertical with appearance of essential longitudinal oscillations. The author reviews in [5] known to date laws of control applicable for the deployment mode and compares their merits and demerits. The mode of the tether retrieval has its features. One of them is transition in rotational mode at a rapid reeling of