Swan reported on April 8, 2024 an update on the Space Elevator tether material that needs to be “long, strong and light enough.”
"The manufacture of tether-quality material for a space elevator still needs more development, but the trajectory to a high-quality industrial product is clear. It is not unreasonable to think that…. space elevator tether production could begin in five to ten years using Graphene as its material.”
That quote is from “The Right Stuff,” an article in the British Interplanetary Society’s Spaceflight (June 2023) by Adrian Nixon, John Knapman and Dennis Wright. This lack of awareness of our (ISEC’s) findings on two-dimensional materials is of concern, it is almost a denial of the physics and development that many have achieved.
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