Re: Practical space elevator

From: S.J. Van Sickle (sjvan@csd.uwm.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 11:32:45 MST

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 hal@finney.org wrote:

> One concern is that the author describes himself as an "amateur" rocket
> scientist, and his academic credentials consist of an MS in electrical
> engineering. He raises a number of good issues but obviously the design
> would require huge amounts of work before a prototype could be attempted.

See

http://www.tethers.com/

for a much more detailed design/analysis of this and related ideas.

steve

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