Timeline for Space Elevator on Mars with Today's Technology Possible?
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| May 10, 2013 at 8:30 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 7, 2012 at 12:51 | vote | accept | mring | ||
| Aug 6, 2012 at 20:47 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Sorry for deleting my comment just before you posted your...I had concluded that I was wrong on roughly the basis you give. | |
| Aug 6, 2012 at 20:46 | comment | added | Martin | You can convert the exponential falloff into a linear material strength required, as was done in the NIAC study by Brad Edwards. You can then also ask the question if today's materials are the ~3 GPa strength of Kevlar or maybe the ~5-10GPa of M5, should you be able to acquire it. Or how much taper you are willing to deploy with. That is why this answer is not as simple, not even with your assumption that I just used a linear factor, which is not stated. With clearer boundary conditions we can give a clearer answer, i.e., calculate it. :) | |
| Aug 6, 2012 at 20:19 | history | answered | Martin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |