Space elevator
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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 depicted in science fiction. The main component
One concept for the space elevator has it tethered to a mobile seagoing platform.
A seagoing anchor station would also act as a deep-water seaport.
A conceptual drawing of a space elevator climber ascending through the clouds.
Space elevator with space station (NASA image)
Carbon nanotube
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A carbon nanotube is a tube made of carbon with a diameter in the nanometre range. They are one of the allotropes of carbon. Two broad classes of carbon nanotubes are recognized:
Space elevator
…In 2014, Google X's Rapid Evaluation R&D team began designing a Space Elevator, eventually finding that no one had yet manufactured a perfectly formed carbon nanotube strand longer than a meter. They thus put the project in "deep freeze" and also keep tabs on any advances in the carbon nanotube field. In 2019, the…
Transmission electron microscope image of carbon nanotube junction
A scanning electron microscopy image of carbon nanotube bundles
Computer simulated microstructures with agglomeration regions
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