Why does a space elevator have to be tethered at the equator?

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Can’t you place a space elevator below or above the equator? The tether would leave the ground at an angle but it would be parallel to the centrifugal force from the planet’s spin.

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follow up. why does it have to be tethered to earth? couldn’t the cables just hang into the atmosphere around 35000 feet at we just have airplanes move loads up to the cables?

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