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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A Martian space elevator can be built with high tensile steel, and will be shorter than one on the moon. I like space elevators, but they work better on smaller bodies with higher rotation, i.e., low gravity and lower stationary orbits.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

yeah but the moon is close and makes a faster easier testbed. I would actually like to have it followed up by a martian one.