New Study Says Space Elevators Will Be Feasible by 2030 - Futurism

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New Study Says Space Elevators Will Be Feasible by 2030 - Futurism

'... Ultimately, the team clarifies that a space elevator would require a super-strong, flexible material that can be used to make the 100,000 km rope that would be necessary to make a true space elevator. It is a material that, currently, we don’t have. But we will. And the scientists assert that such a material will become real before 2030.

Given these developments, the researchers behind the study think that the creation of space elevators will be viable roughly around this same time-frame.

Notably, it is actually the elevator that will make space travel more accessible. In their work, the team asserts that the technology would make commercial and government missions more feasible, and pave the way for the development of space colonies, as we could get material and supplies to space much cheaper using such an elevator.
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