Space Elevator

  • The Space Elevator. Part III: The Space Elevator in the 21st Century: Reality, Barriers, and Horizons

    The Space Elevator. Part III: The Space Elevator in the 21st Century: Reality, Barriers, and Horizons

    ← Part I: from the Tower of Babel to Tsiolkovsky’s dream Part II: how a Dream Became an Engineering Calculation ⟶ Chapter 13. The major engineering dead ends: why aren’t we in orbit yet? The turn of the millennium brought not just an understanding of the underlying physics, but also a harsh collision with the […]

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  • The Space Elevator. Part II: how a Dream Became an Engineering Calculation (the 20th Century)

    The Space Elevator. Part II: how a Dream Became an Engineering Calculation (the 20th Century)

    ← Part I: from the Tower of Babel to Tsiolkovsky’s dream Part III: The Space Elevator in the 21st Century ⟶ We’re continuing our investigation into the space elevator. Chapter 8. Down to Earth: Yuri Artsutanov’s revolutionary reversal The concept Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed in 1895 had one fundamental weakness: it assumed building the tower from […]

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  • The Space Elevator: a staircase to the sky. Part I: from the Tower of Babel to Tsiolkovsky’s dream

    The Space Elevator: a staircase to the sky. Part I: from the Tower of Babel to Tsiolkovsky’s dream

    ← Part II: how a Dream Became an Engineering Calculation Part III: The Space Elevator in the 21st Century ⟶ Dear readers! Today’s piece isn’t a typical article — it’s a full investigation. We’ve already crossed into the second quarter of the 21st century. Once-unimaginable technologies are within reach, and we’re preparing for a flight […]

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