This type of tidally locked cable would be about 250,000 km in length and cover 2/3 the distance from moon to the earth. A lunar cable might reduce the delta V required for getting from LEO to the lunar surface by about 30%.Tom Ligon wrote:Space elevators are problematic for most moons, our own included, because they're typically tidally locked to their parent. They don't rotate fast enough to have a practical synchronous orbit station. It may be practical on these to run an elevator either straight toward the parent or straight away from it.
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Looking at transport to and from moons a bit differently, having no atmosphere means that in principle a rotovator could touch down and lift off from the surface. In practice that could be difficult.
The daylight is uncomfortably bright for eyes so long in the dark.
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Definitely too big for my back yard. I'm out.Nydoc wrote:250,000 km in length and cover 2/3 the distance from moon to the earth.