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Calliban

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From: Northern England, UK

Registered: 2019-08-18

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Orbital Rings

Project Atlantis is about creating orbital rings that provide energy storage, low-cost surface to surface transportation and cheap access to space.  The ring appears to be a steel cable that is accelerated to orbital velocity in an evacuated tube.  It is tethered to ground by a carbon fibre cable.
https://m.youtube.com/@spaceinfrastructure3238

Whilst this is an interesting idea, the cost of building it will be high.  It will need to pass through the airspace of multiple countries and over large stretches of open ocean.  It would also appear to be vulnerable to single point failure.  An aircraft collision with the ring at any point, would bring it down all over the world.

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tahanson43206

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Registered: 2018-04-27

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Re: Orbital Rings

For Calliban re new topic.

Best wishes for success with this interesting new topic!

I'm looking forward to discussion as members have time to consider the idea.  It might work particularly well in service at an airless body such as the Moon.

It sounds similar to a proposal by Jim Cline in 2011 or so.

I'll be opening the link you provided later today.

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Mars_B4_Moon

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Registered: 2006-03-23

Posts: 9,774

Re: Orbital Rings

perhaps wrote by an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot

'Japan’s 96,000 km Space Elevator Project: Reach Space in Just a Week Explore how Japan’s Obayashi Corporation plans to transform space travel with a pioneering 96,000 km-long space elevator, launching construction in 2025'

https://yourstory.com/2024/05/japan-spa … 050-launch

and some outrageous claims

Carbon nanotube (CNT)

At this point, the spaceship releases the CNT cable back to Earth, becoming a counterweight once reaching 96,000 km in altitude. The climber units will transport materials and eventually people, utilising the strength of CNT to withstand the necessary tension and environmental stressors.

A year old topic

In the past ideas like space elevators were considered wacky scifi ideas but with advances in science people are taking them serious again

Mars did have rings

Martian moon's orbit suggests the Red Planet had a ring
https://www.space.com/mars-had-ring-dei … orbit.html

Riding the Cosmic Highway: The Future of Space Elevators
https://medium.com/insights-of-nature/r … acaceb63b7

from the virtual world of video games all you need to do is keep playing and finally get bonus score points to unlock some gamer item

'Stellaris – How to Build an Orbital Ring'
https://gamerempire.net/stellaris-how-t … ital-ring/

somewhat relevant discussions

Planetary Ring-structure Space Station
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=3975

Manufactured Planet Rings
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6977

Orbital rings - and other kinethic structures
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2385

Magnetic Acceleration Ring
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5645

World Rings
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9985

Venus Ringworld
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7561