Chinese scientists say they have the key to building a space elevator. O What?

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They said that fiber would be "very demanding in many top-level areas such as sports equipment, ballistic armor, aeronautics, astronautics and even space elevators." But is it an elevator that could travel from Earth to space, in fact, possibly, or is it just a matter of science fiction?

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The novel was the first popular commentary on an idea depicted by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895: the space elevator, a space-space transport system, as well as the lifts we use daily but 300,000 times larger.

The call of a space elevator is reduced to finding a much cheaper way to travel in space. It costs more than $ 160 million to launch a satellite for a single trip, but it is estimated that a space elevator could reduce that value to less than $ 2 million per person per journey.

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The basic concept of a space elevator involves a cable anchored to the surface of the Earth and attached to a counterweight that is sent into space. If the cable is long enough – 36,000 km (22,369 miles) or three times the diameter of the Earth – it will be pulled up and upright by gravity and centrifugal force.

The theory is that a vehicle could travel along the cable, propelled by the rotating energy of the Earth. This would transform the revolution into space travel, but designing and finding a strong enough material for the idea is extremely challenging.

Japan launched two satellites in September in the first experiment to study the movement of lifts in space, involving a mini-lift that travels along a cable from one satellite to another. Has not yet reported the results. China also conducted space tests, but did not disclose the details.

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The Tsiolkovski rocket scientist first exposed the concept in 1895, imagining a heavenly castle in the space bounded by Earth by a massive tower. Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov continued to take over, developing a modern version of a space elevator based on Tsiolkovsky's model.

American engineer and space scientist Jerome Pearson published the first technical note on the concept in 1975 that drew the attention of the scientific community. Four years later, science fiction writer Clarke popularized this idea using Pearson's model in his novel about the space elevator.

Scientists have since tried to regulate design and develop new materials to bring the concept closer to being a reality.

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The three major challenges that need to be overcome are buckling, dynamic stability and strength. Scientists believe they could control the buoyancy and dynamic stability with a satellite in geostationary orbit at the right altitude to make sure they are not pulled by the Earth's gravity or flight.

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