Worlds toughest material

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Nydoc
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Re: Worlds toughest material

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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.
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%.

hanelyp
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Re: Worlds toughest material

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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.

DeltaV
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Re: Worlds toughest material

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Nydoc wrote:250,000 km in length and cover 2/3 the distance from moon to the earth.
Definitely too big for my back yard. I'm out.

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