![]() High velocity (starting at 7.76 km/sec at 100,000 altitude enables rapid transits to the Moon, Mars and beyond).Massive movement (Initial Operational Capability (IOC) at 30,000 tonnes/yr and Full Operational Capability (FOC) 170,000 tonnes/yr).Transforming the economics towards an infrastructure with access to more valuable, lucrative, stable and reliable investments.Daily, routinely, safely, inexpensively.This permanent transportation infrastructure of space elevators will enable future missions with their great need to move cargo: Payloads (satellites with rocket motors) released from the Apex Anchor will travel faster, release daily, and move more mass than possible by rockets – all while ascending the tether as the Green Road to Space (no burning of rocket fuel in our atmosphere – all electric tether climbers).Ģ.0 Transformational Characteristics: Space access will become similar to moving from small boats across a big river to a bridge moving traffic daily, routinely, safely, inexpensively, and with little environmental impact. These characteristics are explained in the next section, but the importance of these concepts must be pointed out to ensure appreciation of the changes: From this research, and other ISEC studies and activities, the realization surfaced that the Space Elevator will transform the concept of transportation for space access. However, their research was applied to the CisLunar arena to help understand the meaning of their results. Research into orbits and trajectories accomplished over the last five years has been focused upon Mars and Jupiter as well as several other planets. When the students at ASU looked at the trip to the Moon from the top of the Space Elevator, the Apex Anchor, they discovered it was only 14 hours to reach the Lunar region while requiring rocket motors to slow down as the space systems were moving rapidly at that point. Daily releases change the concept of going to Mars from once every 26 months to daily while enabling trips as fast as 61 days. ![]() ![]() These three realizations change the way researchers look at the strengths of Space Elevators as they change the paradigm of space travel to one of routine, daily, massive movement of cargo and environmentally friendly. The key discovery from this research has been presented in many papers (Significant Strengths of Space Elevators). 1.0 Introduction: The International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) and the Arizona State University (ASU) conducted several years of research on the release characteristics of Space Elevators, as a Permanent Space Infrastructure, with respect to interplanetary and CisLunar missions.
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