Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Tethered satellites
Posted by
Tony Jeffree
on 2001-04-02 00:24:59 UTC
At 06:49 02/04/2001 +0000, you wrote:
remember rightly, his version relied on the ability to produce cables made
from "monofilaments" of diamond crystal in order to get the required
tensile strength-to-weight ratio. Sounded fairly implausible when I read
the book, but then again, he did predict the communications satellite back
in the '30s or thereabouts.
Regards,
Tony
>I have no idea if it was something called a press duck in germanThis was an idea dreamed up by Arthur C. Clarke in one of his books - if I
>but a few weeks ago ago I read in the news paper
>the NASA investigates to build a stationary satellite. connect it with a
>cable to the ground station and then instead of shooting rockets up into
>space
>would lift the satellites with a elevator.
>I cannot believe this would be in serious studies.
remember rightly, his version relied on the ability to produce cables made
from "monofilaments" of diamond crystal in order to get the required
tensile strength-to-weight ratio. Sounded fairly implausible when I read
the book, but then again, he did predict the communications satellite back
in the '30s or thereabouts.
Regards,
Tony