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Optimal Electrostatic Space Tower (Mast, New Space Elevator)

Alexander Bolonkin
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Author offers and researched the new and revolutionary inflatable electrostatic AB space towers (mast, new space elevator) up to one hundred twenty thousands kilometers (or more) in height. The main innovation is filling the tower by electron gas, which can create pressure up one atmosphere, has negligible small weight and surprising properties. The suggested mast has following advantages in comparison with conventional space elevator: 1. Electrostatic AB tower may be built from Earth surface without the employment of any rockets. That decreases the cost of electrostatic mast by thousands of times. 2. One can have any height and has a big control load capacity. 3. Electrostatic tower can have the height of a geosynchronous orbit (36,000 km) WITHOUT the additional top cable as the space elevator (up 120,000 - 160,000 km) and counterweight (equalizer) of hundreds of tons. 4. The offered mast has less total mass than conventional space elevator. 5. The offered tower can have the high-speed electrostatic climbers moved by high-voltage electricity from Earth's surface. 6. The electrostatic mast can bend in any needed direction when we give the necessary electric voltage in the required parts of the extended mast. 7. Control mast has stability for any altitude. Three projects 100 km, 36,000km (GEO), 120,000 km are computed and presented.

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Alexander Bolonkin. 2007-04-26. Optimal Electrostatic Space Tower (Mast, New Space Elevator). https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3466

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