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Tethered Ring Space Launchers

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Tethered Ring Reference Design

The tethered ring reference design's height is 32 kilometers or 20 miles up, that keeps above air traffic and weather. Transport could be directly up a vertical cable that's 32 kilometers long or at an angle. The transit tube with a diameter of about 12 meters or 40 feet which supports 4 lanes of traffic. You can also overlap rings much as with the orbital ring to allow transfers between them.

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