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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

geosynchronous orbit. A further form of geosynchronous orbit is the theoretical space elevator. If a mass orbiting above the geostationary belt is tethered to the...

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

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...

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

"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...

increasingly complex factories. The initial goal is to construct a space elevator, through which the Pioneer begins supplying the megacorp the player...

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...

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...

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packs; but particularly notable are the Lunar Lander Challenge and the Space Elevator Games. 85,000 visitors attended the 2007 X Prize Cup. Although there...

Elevator:2010 was an inducement prize contest with the purpose of developing space elevator and space elevator-related technologies. Elevator:2010 organized...

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,...

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

space exploration missions, delivering raw materials to a Moon-based space dock positioned as a counterweight to a Moon-based space elevator. Space docks...

an aircraft in Earth's atmosphere and function as a spacecraft in outer space. To do so, spaceplanes must incorporate features of both aircraft and spacecraft...

doses about 0.5% of what the space elevator would give. Unlike space elevators which are subjected to the risks of space debris and meteorites along their...

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...

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl. It is the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, continuing...

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...

LiftPort Space Elevator". liftport.com. Archived from the original on 12 February 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2008. "NASA Reaches Milestone in Space Launch...

century. An empty space vessel arrives which harbingers additional arrivals; the next is a ship which constructs the cord of a space elevator anchored on Darwin...