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Yes, absolutely. There was another talk by someone at ESA on the feasibility of a moon elevator as well: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8407-an_elevator_to_the_moo
by lorenzhs 10y ago
Yes, absolutely. There was another talk by someone at ESA on the feasibility of a moon elevator as well: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8407-an_elevator_to_the_moon_and_back https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8407-an_elevator_to_the_moon_and... , which is also quite cool. The gist is that while we don't have the materials to build a space elevator from Earth, today's materials are sufficiently strong to construct a moon elevator (from the moon into space). This would reduce the ∆v required for moon missions significantly (by around 2.8km/s iirc). Getting the materials to the moon and constructing the elevator are a different story, though :)
- Nomentatus 10y agoSomething I remember proposing more than a decade ago. But it's actually better to use it as an anchor for a station at the L1 earth-moon point and one-shot payloads there by ecannon from the lunar surface, since at the right angle such payloads actually climb up the gravitational saddle to the saddlepoint where the station is and come to rest there.