A space elevator, also referred to as a space bridge, star ladder, and orbital lift, is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system, often...

Space elevator economics compares the cost of sending a payload into Earth orbit via a space elevator with the cost of doing so with alternatives, like...

A lunar space elevator or lunar spacelift is a proposed transportation system for moving a mechanical climbing vehicle up and down a ribbon-shaped tethered...

This is a list of occurrences of space elevators in fiction. Some depictions were made before the space elevator concept became fully established. Kris...

never-done-before technologies like the construction and operation of a space elevator. A space elevator would present a navigational hazard, both to aircraft and spacecraft...

approaches for constructing a space elevator have been proposed: First, using in-space resources to manufacture the whole cable in space. Second, launching and...

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl. It is the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, continuing...

A space elevator is a theoretical system using a super-strong ribbon going from the surface of the Earth to a point beyond Geosynchronous orbit. The center...

materials to make an Earth-based space elevator possible. Landis and Cafarelli suggested that a tension structure ("space elevator") extending downward from...

An elevator (American English) or lift (Commonwealth English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels. They are typically...

whereas the space elevator depends on the development of a material for the cable with a very high specific strength. A space elevator is a proposed...

has been proposed as a future site for space elevator construction. This would involve a pair of space elevators: one extending 6,000 km from the Mars-facing...

is the theoretical space elevator. When one end is attached to the ground, for altitudes below the geostationary belt the elevator maintains a shorter...

"The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality". space.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-04. Edwards, Bradley C. (2004). "A Space Elevator Based...

station-supporting streams. Unlike a space elevator, this concept does not need extremely strong materials anywhere, and unlike space elevators and orbital rings, it...

conceived the idea of a space elevator, sometimes referred to as a synchronous tether, and, in particular, analyzed a lunar elevator that can go through the...

to the space elevator. Phobos orbits at 2.15 km/s and the outer most part of the space elevator would rotate around Mars at 3.52 km/s. Space law involves...

Unfinished building NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts suggested building space elevator on equatorial floating platform located at the “lightning-free” zone...

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transferred to the payload. A skyhook differs from a geostationary orbit space elevator in that a skyhook would be much shorter and would not come in contact...

engineer born in Leningrad. He was one of the pioneers of the idea of a space elevator. The February issue of the ISEC Newsletter is devoted to his life and...

increasingly complex factories. The initial goal is to construct a space elevator, through which the Pioneer begins supplying the megacorp the player...

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cab serving odd floors. Double-deck elevators occupy less building core space than traditional single-deck elevators do for the same level of traffic. In...

through a simulated journey 220 miles (355 km) up to Centauri Space Station using a space elevator known as the Stellarvator. The table-service restaurant serves...

Clarke. Set in the 22nd century, it describes the construction of a space elevator. This "orbital tower" is a giant structure rising from the ground and...

appear stationary and allow a cable to be lowered to form a space elevator. This elevator is only perhaps 500 kilometres (310 mi) long, which can be built...

packs; but particularly notable are the Lunar Lander Challenge and the Space Elevator Games. 85,000 visitors attended the 2007 X Prize Cup. Although there...

Space Elevator – Chapters 2 & 7". Archived from the original on June 3, 2005. Weinstein, Leonard M. (2003). "Space Colonization Using Space-Elevators...

say goodbye (as volunteers can never return to Earth), Perry takes a space elevator to the CDF ship Henry Hudson, where he meets Thomas, Jessie, Harry,...