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1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook

submitted by w1ndex

5 years 1 week ago

From Youtube, "Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources.
A more efficient way to get there is a Skyhook (or Spacetether), an ever rotating cable with a counter weight, that catapults spaceships from earth orbit into the depths of space."

6 Comments

Spacedog79 says...

Mind blown. This is so clever it really does seem like cheating.

Edit: Thanks Eric for the link that addressed my questions/concerns.

Imo, rail guns and gravity couches are far more feasible and that technology does exist today. I hope we develop something before the Kessler syndrome (when space junk in orbit is so prevalent it's impossible to avoid and constantly increasing, like in "Gravity") makes orbiting or leaving earth impossible. That day is approaching quickly.

Information sources they used for the video.
https://sites.google.com/view/sources-skyhooks/

Moving this video to w1ndex's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by eric3579.

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