Re: steel cable as an alternative for the space elevator?

Until I read further down... sigh.

rick jones

Of course it's Earth centric, we're talking about a cable that extends to the surface of the earth who's center of mass (including counterweight) is at geosynchrynous altitude, so the end of the cable at the earth is stationary (obviously this assumes an orbit over the equator). Getting from the surface of the earth to GEO without using rockets would be a good thing.

I've not done the math myself, but it sounds true since using rocket engines you can't create a LOX/LH2 SSTO that would take you all the way to GEO (even getting to LEO this way is a subject of intense debate). You'd surely want a way to transmit power to the climber from the ground, from GEO, or from both. I'd think that you'd want to beam power to the climber using lasers or microwaves.

Jeff

Here's a puzzle for all you contributors to this debate: who started off the debate with soc.culture.zimbabwe in the crosspostings, and why have none of you checked where you have been sending your posts to? Please do not invade our Zimbabwean newsgroup with your irrelevant utterances.

What about a Infinite or Integrate STO that sacrifices the rocket casing and tanks as the propellands burn?

or neutr=F2ns? :)

-Aut

That's an infinite stage to orbit vehicle. I haven't done the math for that one, but I'm sure it would make a good problem for an aerospace engineering class.

I picked the SSTO comparison since I figured a space elevator climber wouldn't be dropping parts on the way up.

Jeff

It would appear that these people are either ignorant or have reading difficulties:

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com PD BradGuth snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com snipped-for-privacy@org.trash (Rand Simberg) ayaz

They are still crossposting to soc.culture.zimbabwe despite appeals not to do so. Interestingly, four of them are using gmail.com addressess -- perhaps this is significant.

Some time ago, I began to simply ignore all postings from places like Hotmail.com and Gmail.com.

Life has been easier since then.

I may have missed a modest number of intelligent individuals, but don't regret that in the big picture.

What exactly is your pretend dyslexic or whatever pretend atheist faith-based form of infomercial naysay spewing problem?

Why exactly is an efficient Lunar Space Elevator(LSE) and of utilizing the moon's L1 as offering such a terrific space depot/gateway (aka LSE- CM/ISS) being so continually taboo/nondisclosure rated?

- Brad Guth -

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That is, the rocketbody would be the fuel as well.