Letter: A space elevator seen as a weight on a string (2)

Published 6 February 2019

From Andy Howe, Sheffield, UK

Have the proponents of the space elevator done a risk assessment for a manufacturing error that results in a cable of length similar to the c ircumference of Earth coming whirling down?

Issue no. 3216 published 9 February 2019

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