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Space elevators will intersect satellite orbits. This should be added.
While the current article is comprehensive in its discussion of the engineering challenges that would be associated with constructing a space elevator, it fails to mention a far more fundamental issue. As Larry Niven pointed out in his story "Rainbow Mars", space elevators are incompatible with orbital satellites other than at geosynchronous altitude. Even a single space elevator will intersect satellite orbits to a point where having more than a few satellites in orbit below or above geosynchronous altitude is impossible.
I would have added this, but I'm not sure where or in what form. I do feel it has to be included, though, since it is an important hurdle (apart from engineering) in the practical realization of this theoretical concept. 41.113.201.134 (talk) 10:17, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
