Re: Coverage of space elevator conference on msnbc.com

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 01:16:16 MDT


At 08:57 PM 8/26/02 -0700, Spike wrote:

>OK, so you climb to the top of a 100 km tower with a payload.
>Now what? You are about 3% of the way to orbit.

You're in near vacuum. Doesn't that count for anything? As I recall, JoSH
proposes a 10 g linear accelerator at the top.

Damien Broderick



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