Earth Space Ring

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For years people have tried to develop a space elevator. The problem is the materials required to produce a cable over 65 thousand miles into space doesn't exist. Right now we are trying to produce a space ring 300 miles off the surface of the earth 25 thousand miles long. We can use existing materials.
Last year we attempted to get government funding thru NASA in their reusable commercial space JSC-CCDev-1 funding opportunity. We are sill waiting and wondering what is up with NASA. Let me give you a brief rundown.
Low cost world access to space. It is widely accepted that the least expensive mode of re-usable transportation to low orbital stasis is by elevator. It is also accepted that materials utilizing carbon nanotubes for cable are in near production. It is considered that an actual space elevator would best be served near the equator. We propose that instead of running a single cable 64,000 miles into space, that mankind and spaceflight would better be served with a 25,000 mile ring around the Earth close to 70° north. This would allow individuals on the North American continent, Europe, Russia, China, and Japan to travel into space at an extremely low cost and with regularity.
Commerce would be available at access ports throughout the Ring Orbital Platform of Earth 1,(ROPE 1) A space ring in a earth orbit of about 300 miles above the surface of the planet, will allow multiple access ports throughout the earth for reusable, low cost space flight access. In the time it takes to prepare and launch one shuttle, the ROPE 1 can insert thousands of personnel and hundreds of tons of materials into a 300 mile high orbit,. The ROPE 1 will serve as a platform for additional personnel and science product to be delivered to and from the space station daily if not hourly.
ROPE 1 will allow for space commerce to be a train ride away. Delivery to the space station would be as easy as a low-speed spring-loaded or mag-rail delivery systems. To deliver product to a geocentric orbit using a space elevator would take a week. Massive amounts of personnel and construction material delivered to ROPE 1 would take hours. Human expansion into space would be a simple matter of fact and be as safe as taking an elevator to work. The opportunities for space resorts, hotels in space, industry, and space fabrication would all be pragmatic and easily achievable. All would be attached to the ROPE 1 in the Northern Hemisphere.
Every major city in the Northern Hemisphere could have their own ROPE 1 access. One could have access to space from San Francisco, Denver, Washington, DC, London, Paris, Budapest, Moscow, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo. Instead of costing hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars for one person to get into space, the cost would be equivalent to taking a train from Los Angeles, to Las Vegas and back. The same is true for freight.
If you want to be involved with the project we can start a grassroots campaign to get this project underway. Help us by spredding the word.
 
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MeteorWayne

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Moved to Space Business and Techology with the other threads on this topic.
 
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SpaceTas

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If you are proposing a ring running along a line of latitude of 70 deg N; like a little halo well I know why you have had no reply from NASA. It won't work! The ring needs to be in orbit around the center of mass of the Earth.
 
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Valcan

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Yea not only would it need to be around our center of mass but the weight of the thing an the cost would have to have pretty much the economies of the entire world dedicated to it.


But i like the idea in the next hundred or so years. If the psycho's of the world would stop with the freaking jihad and the greens dont take over that is.
 
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Shpaget

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No existing technology or materials can support a tower 300 miles high.
Since 300 miles is well under the geostationary orbit such a ring as you propose rotating with Earth would be considerable burden for the towers that can't even support themselves.

70° north?
Like SpaceTas, not the most ideal latitude. Besides, why so far to the north? Almost all the cities you mention are well under 50°N.
 
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MeteorWayne

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Yes it was, however, it used a word not permitted here at SDC, so has been poofed away.
 
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Cosmicvoid

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intrepidengineer":2sxd237e said:
"we are trying to produce ..."
"we attempted to get ..."
"We are sill waiting ..."
I am wondering who the "we" is.
 
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