I love aircraft...If the Wrights didn't do it I would have. I have been involved with aerodynamics and Space for a long time before working on computers, working with airlines and NASA at Wallops Island (Eastern Shore, VA)Conestoga project.
I do not claim to have future predicting capabilities...
However I am certain that this idea will not work. better to build a halfway station and build out that way, no tethering to the earth... that would be catastrophical...
Why haven't we fired a cable to earth from the shuttle to see if it can be done... I mean it's orbit is certainly closer to earth to test, it's mass is big enough to similate a counterweight...
I am not telling anyone to not believe, I am saying look at reality...
AGAIN, because you MUST use geostationary orbit, which the shuttle cannot obtain.
I don't know how much more of this I can take.
BTW, have you contacted NASA yet regarding the reason satellites won't stay in orbit? Their being no "anti gravity" to keep them up and all that?