[eli5]Building a sky elevator

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Why instead of launching rockets from the ground, we don’t build a high platform above the sky and launch from there?

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There is a great podcast on this from SYSK. The biggest limitation is we don’t have any material strong enough to make a space elevator. Once carbon nanochains can be mass produced this is a entirely realistic probability, but you would have to contend with space debris and orbits

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