A space elevator, also referred to as a space bridge, star ladder, and orbital lift, is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system, often...

Space elevator economics compares the cost of sending a payload into Earth orbit via a space elevator with the cost of doing so with alternatives, like...

A lunar space elevator or lunar spacelift is a proposed transportation system for moving a mechanical climbing vehicle up and down a ribbon-shaped tethered...

never-done-before technologies like the construction and operation of a space elevator. A space elevator would present a navigational hazard, both to aircraft and spacecraft...

approaches for constructing a space elevator have been proposed: First, using in-space resources to manufacture the whole cable in space. Second, launching and...

A space elevator is a theoretical system using a super-strong ribbon going from the surface of the Earth to a point beyond Geosynchronous orbit. The center...

This is a list of occurrences of space elevators in fiction. Some depictions were made before the space elevator concept became fully established. Kris...

An elevator (North American English) or lift (British English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels. They are typically...

materials to make an Earth-based space elevator possible. Landis and Cafarelli suggested that a tension structure ("space elevator") extending downward from...

has been proposed as a future site for space elevator construction. This would involve a pair of space elevators: one extending 6,000 km from the Mars-facing...

whereas the space elevator depends on the development of a material for the cable with a very high specific strength. A space elevator is a proposed...

"The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality". space.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-04. Edwards, Bradley C. (2004). "A Space Elevator Based...

is the theoretical space elevator. When one end is attached to the ground, for altitudes below the geostationary belt the elevator maintains a shorter...

Unfinished building NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts suggested building space elevator on equatorial floating platform located at the “lightning-free” zone...

conceived the idea of a space elevator, sometimes referred to as a synchronous tether, and, in particular, analyzed a lunar elevator that can go through the...

station-supporting streams. Unlike a space elevator, this concept does not need extremely strong materials anywhere, and unlike space elevators and orbital rings, it...

"Great Glass Elevator" redirects here. For the comic, see Highland Laddie (comic book) § Great Glass Elevator. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's...

transferred to the payload. A skyhook differs from a geostationary orbit space elevator in that a skyhook would be much shorter and would not come in contact...

factories for automating all resource needs. The initial goal is to build a space elevator and begin supplying the company the player works for (FICSIT Inc.) with...

to the space elevator. Phobos orbits at 2.15 km/s and the outer most part of the space elevator would rotate around Mars at 3.52 km/s. Space law involves...

and lunar space elevators could be built with modern-day materials however. A space elevator on Phobos has also been proposed. Space elevators also have...

years later, Academy City nears completion of the space elevator capable of bringing people into space without the need for spacecraft called "Endymion"...

engineer born in Leningrad. He was one of the pioneers of the idea of a space elevator. The February issue of the ISEC Newsletter is devoted to his life and...

through a simulated journey 220 miles (355 km) up to Centauri Space Station using a space elevator known as the Stellarvator. The table-service restaurant serves...

Dark Forest. Physicist Bradley Edwards describes the concept of the space elevator - a system that could transport material from the surface of Earth into...

say goodbye (as volunteers can never return to Earth), Perry takes a space elevator to the CDF ship Henry Hudson, where he meets Thomas, Jessie, Harry,...

appear stationary and allow a cable to be lowered to form a space elevator. This elevator is only perhaps 500 kilometres (310 mi) long, which can be built...

Clarke. Set in the 22nd century, it describes the construction of a space elevator. This "orbital tower" is a giant structure rising from the ground and...

claimed. SpaceX uses Zylon for the suspension lines on their Mk3 parachutes. Four Mk3 parachutes serve as the main parachutes on each of SpaceX's human-rated...

electricity and to electrically accelerate air around a vehicle for thrust. Elevator:2010 List of laser articles Optical lift Rocket engine Michaelis, MM and...