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Japanese Space-Elevator Experiment Launching to Space Station Next Week (Really!)
Space.com ^
| Sept 7, 2018
| Scott Snowden, Space.com Contributor
Posted on 09/10/2018 11:11:18 AM PDT by ETL
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Space elevators have long been a staple of science fiction. Now, scientists in Japan will test space-elevator tech from the
International Space Station. Credit: NASA
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:11:18 AM PDT
by
ETL
To: ETL
I read an article about those cubesats a year or so ago. Pretty amazing concept. They could end up applying something akin to Moore’s law to satellites.
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:16:25 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: ETL
I thought the Space Elevator was a plot device on the old Lost In Space series?
To: ETL
They need advances in cable material for a real space elevator to work, but it will be pretty cool when they have one working.
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:21:12 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
To: ETL
Another brilliant idea from Arthur C Clarke.
The communication satellite worked so well.
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:21:29 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: ETL
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:22:28 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: Vaquero
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Authur C Clark
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:26:01 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
(uit)
To: ETL
I’m confused. Doesn’t that mean if the earth side part of the elevator is fixed the satellite would have to be in a geosynchronous orbit? If the earth side part is not fixed wouldn’t it drag on every high feature in its path?
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:27:33 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: ETL
I predict that thing will become the biggest lightning rod of all time.
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:29:07 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: ETL
To: ETL
A cable from the surface of the Earth to a satellite. I’m sure the engineers have calculated the stress that would be on the cable due to gravity, and the weight of the cable itself, plus the effect of winds and the movement of the cable through the atmosphere because it is being dragged by the rotating Earth to which it is attached. Also, they will have carefully considered all possible scenarios in which something can go wrong and have assured themselves that the humans in the space station are not in danger when the cable snaps or a plane flies into it or a hurricane or a tornado whips it around or lightning hits it.
Engineers think of everything, and they never create structures that collapse.
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:36:17 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
To: Windflier
“I predict that thing will become the biggest lightning rod of all time”.
Space lightning? I’d never heard of it.
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:37:01 AM PDT
by
laplata
(Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Moonman62
Stratosphere...linens, cookware, glasses & underwear.
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:38:26 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says)
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:43:15 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: ETL
They might want to review the TSS program (Tethered Satellite System). Didn’t work out so well for them.
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:43:32 AM PDT
by
JoSixChip
(He is Batman!)
To: ETL
I remember that one of the staples of old sci-fi stories dealing with space elevators was always the fear that they would become separated from the satellite and would whiplash back to Earth in a 100+ mile band of destruction.
I've heard of "Rods from God", but this would be a "Flail from Hell" ...
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:43:33 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(Democrats are National Socialists)
To: ETL
Cable strength is only one of the problems.
Questions of mass transfer, the balancing of the
mass of the elevator as it starts its climb to when
it reaches the mid-point of the cable and begins to
shift it’s mass to the station are probably a subject
discussed by the engineers.
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:44:11 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: I want the USA back
One Doctor in a Bonanza and you’re screwed.
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:47:16 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
To: antidemoncrat
Yes to both. The space terminus would be in geosynchronous orbit.
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:47:46 AM PDT
by
Afterguard
(Deplorable me!)
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