#spaceelevator

"This post is about space elevators, but not the Earth to Geosynchronous orbit that is most known, but rather a lesser known lunar space elevator {LSE), and in particular the one that rises from the lunar surface and terminates somewhere between the Earth’s surface and the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 1 (EML1)."

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/03/07/spaceline-a-design-for-a-lunar-space-elevator/

#Space #SpaceElevator #Moon #Lunar

@ScienceDesk @sciencefocus There's a great Sci-Fi space elevator example in "The Wandering Earth II", the prequel to the original movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf3VreXwVpI
#TheWanderingEarth2 #WanderingEarth2 #SpaceElevator

AI Helps Researchers Discover New Structural Materials https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/ai-helps-researchers-discover-new-structural-materials/ #ArtificialIntelligence #artificialintelligence #AdditiveManufacturing #materialsscience #machinelearning #metamaterials #nanostructure #spaceelevator #materials #Science #3dprint #science #ai

AI Helps Researchers Discover New Structural Materials - Nanostructured metamaterials have shown a lot of promise in what they can do in th... - https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/ai-helps-researchers-discover-new-structural-materials/ #artificialintelligence #additivemanufacturing #materialsscience #machinelearning #metamaterials #nanostructure #spaceelevator #materials #science #3dprint #ai

Mike Sierra Echo: Space Elevator Tech – Difficult but Worth It https://inkican.com/mike-sierra-echo-space-elevator-tech-difficult-but-worth-it/ #spaceelevator #imagination #counterweight #tether #climber #scifi #space #NASA #solarpunk

Had a dream last night involving a Space Elevator and it's near impossible line up into the sky was freaking me the fuck out.
Therefore, such a thing must be built for me to get over it in my subconscious, confront your liminal fears!

#SpaceElevator

According to the plan, a 20-ton cable is deployed initially, and is reinforced 510 times by climbers up to 7,000 tons, ascending in succession over roughly 18 years. The current technology levels are not yet sufficient to realize the concept, but our plan is realistic, and is a stepping stone toward the construction of the #SpaceElevator https://www.obayashi.co.jp/en/news/detail/the_space_elevator_construction_concept.html

Japanese Company Plans to Build a Tower Into Space by 2050
https://www.sciencealert.com/japanese-company-plans-to-build-a-tower-into-space-by-2050 #astronomy #SpaceTravel #SpaceElevator #Japan #nanotubes

Must feel a little lonely just sitting on top of that rocket while everyone else hurries away so they aren't incinerated in less than half and hour.
I love a rocket launch but a Space Elevator is less....explosive

Less than half an hour to Launch

#Starliner #NASA #SpaceElevator

Design Your Own Space Elevator - Practical Engineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAXGUQ_ewcg

#spaceelevators #spaceelevator #space

@spaceflight Yes, $300/kg may well be achievable, but the graphic shows $100/kg ... that might take some creative accountancy, it's the value quoted by @isecdotorg for the #SpaceElevator.

2023 This #SBSP study by #Astrostrom for #ESA proposes a 29,339 m2 #solar collector at the #Lagrange point, #SolarPanels from #Lunar materials, transported by a #SpaceElevator from the #Moon https://nebula.esa.int/sites/default/files/neb_study/2753/C4000136309ESR.pdf

#ISRU #MoonMining #SpaceBasedSolarPower #SpaceRobot

This is what is on my mind tonight.
I'm a big fan of a sea based anchor, particularly on this planet

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/8866/where-to-anchor-my-space-elevator#8871

#Worldbuilding #SpaceElevator

"First imagined by #Russian rocket scientist Konstantin #Tsiolkovsky in the late 19th century, the #SpaceElevator would extend from the ground through the atmosphere, then past 'geostationary orbit,' an altitude where objects in space —pulled in by the Earth's gravity —orbit more or less in tandem with its rotation. #Geostationary orbit is roughly 22,236 miles above the Earth's surface."
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-space-elevators-physicist-humanity-spacefaring.html

Space elevators seem like a great idea, once again..Yay! See the linked article.

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-space-elevators-physicist-humanity-spacefaring.html

Yes, but...

"Geostationary orbit is roughly 22,236 miles above the Earth's surface. ... Effectively, a cable would descend from a satellite structure anchored in geostationary orbit that would act as a "counterweight" down to Earth."

If one were to fail—as do all human-made structures—it would wrap itself around the circumference of the Earth at the equator. That's 24,902 miles. The orbital momentum of the fall would throw debris considerably further. Don't expect one soon, if ever. (This would make a great story prompt, though.)

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remember this awesome thing? https://neal.fun/space-elevator/ #spaceElevator

Web-Tipps: Weltraumlift​-Minispiel | heise online
https://www.heise.de/news/Web-Tipps-Weltraumlift-9350531.html #SpaceElevator

Thinking it would be easier to build a #SpaceElevator rather High Speed Rail in the UK...

Wondering what the carbon footprint of a Orion Pulsed Drive is compared to all these methane fuelled rockets.....

Hurry up with that #SpaceElevator already!

#Space

@Thoreau @amstanley genuine question for any #engineers or planetary mechanical #physics people out there - is a beanstalk #SpaceElevator from the moon theoretically possible, or does the fact that it is tidally locked mean that there is no such thing as a seleno-synchronous orbit which would be problematic? What if it stuck straight out from the middle of the far side with centrifugal force providing tension? (Of course, this would play havoc with the current real world intent to put large radio telescopes on the far side where we are shielded from the electromagnetic noise from Earth, but then if we become capable of beanstalks, that may be less of a problem.) #Science #SciFi