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Space Elevator Design

I've redone the particulars of the space elevator, found in Section #5 of the Starship Generations website. It now includes estimates of orbits, counterweight mass, aircraft delivery, and construction of the orbiting hub. I figure it will take no more than 500 and possibly as few as 300 Saturn V moon rockets to construct. A century spent constructing a space elevator, 20-50 years constructing giant-scale space habitats, and then we move outward in the solar system:

Starship Generations

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