TWRoO said:
Whether it will be managed in 38 years or not I don't know (doubtfull IMO) but as a concept it is feasable... Satellites in geostationary orbit remain above the same point in the Earth, in basic terms this is just attaching a cable between the two. God knows what they will do about all the shit that's up there already though, all the satellites in geosynchronous orbit will be passing by the "cable"... I guess the active satellites can be programmed to boost around it, but there will surely be a bunch of dead satellites, maybe some that don't have propulsion, and still other junk from various space missions or even small bits of rock or from near miss asteroids. |
That is when Ronald Reagan will necro from the grave and release the fury of the Star Wars program to help protect the elevator against space junk.
