> And just give up on those 30,000+ unit sat constellations. Flies to the flyswatter. The satellites in these constellations are constantly maneuvering. Ther

> And just give up on those 30,000+ unit sat constellations. Flies to the flyswatter. The satellites in these constellations are constantly maneuvering. There's no reason they couldn't easily avoid a sky hook with active correction. > We would have to keep them all in one plane, probably to line up with the moon. What keeps them from being synchronized? By moving counter-weights up and down the tether, you can adjust the rotation speed with no net expenditure of energy. So as long as there is a schedule such that skyhooks in different orbital planes are "horizontal" when crossing each other, you can actively maintain that schedule even as ships are extracting and depositing energy from the skyhook.