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It would be an issue if you expect it to always end up to the same place, but if you don't care where the elevator ends on the Earth side, because you know it w
by Majestic121 7y ago
It would be an issue if you expect it to always end up to the same place, but if you don't care where the elevator ends on the Earth side, because you know it will be in your area at regular intervals, it can be dealt with.
I'm not sure why they picked geostationnary orbit distance if they don't look for locked location though, it seems the risk of colliding with objects would be greater at this height
- extropy 7y agoSince the tether will be moving a lot slower than sattelites in geostationary orbit, and the risk of collision, I assume stopping just short of geostationary is the closest that will be deemed reasonably safe.