Damnit. This text box doesn't seem to accept columnated data. So lets do just one column:
Carbon Fibre Material Properties:
filaments per strand__________12000
filament diameter____________5.1 micrometers
filament section area_________2.04276E-11 m^2
strand section area__________2.45131E-07 m^2
strand diameter_____________0.000558677 m
length per unit mass_________2.25 m/g
density____________________1.81 g/cubic cm
specific surface area_________0.5 sq.m/g
ultimate tensile stress________5.65 Gpa
elongation percent (break)____1.8 percent
elastic modulus______________290 GPa
thermal conductivity_________15 W/m-K
melting point of carbon_______3800 deg.K
carbon electron affinity_______1.00E-04 Ohm-meters
cost of 10 mm thick sheet_____48,400.00 U.S. $/sq.meter
cost per unit volume__________4,840,000.00 U.S. $/cubic meter
Tether Dynamics:
hub orbit altitude_____________3950 km
rotation rate_________________0.000251 rps
rotation time_________________66.381 minutes
overall radius_________________3940000 m
overall radius_________________3940 km
orbit velocity_________________6215 m/s
tip velocity__________________6215 m/s
centripetal tip acceleration_____10 m/s^2
tip g-force___________________0.999 gee's
1-km docking envelope window___29 sec
mass of payload_______________50000 kg
weight of payload_____________4.9E+05 N
min. tip section area___________8.7E-05 m^2
min. number of tip strands______532
Payload Tether Support Stresses
number of strands at root_______1000
number of strands at tip_________532
root area_____________________0.000245131 m^2
tip area______________________0.000130397 m^2
radius of centroid______________985000 m
velocity of center of mass_______1553.844523 m/s^2
centripetal acceleration_________2.451200814 m/s^2
mass of tether_________________50739.7914 kg
weight of tether + payload_______6.1E+05 N
stress at root of tether__________2507283724 Pa
fraction of tensile stress_________0.443767031
tether elongation_______________0.799 percent
whip wavelength________________31471.958 m
Volume of Tether Material________321.9390351 m^3
Cost of Tether Material__________1,558,184,930 U.S. $
Years of university and I can solve non-descript physics problems - just like that ! :-)
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