Up and ready: The space elevator

Que the crazy intros!! Hi everybody with this black hole of a post (excuse me with my puns) I need to get out a message to you. Lately I been super busy with schoolwork; so to make it up to you; I want to make two post this week. Wow! that was a long sentence. Lets start.

What is a space elevator?: Just one thing, how would it work

Float with me: I heard you want the facts, about the space elevator. Well,

Is it even possibile?: Real Engineering takes a look at the feasibility (It means how easy it is to build) of space elevators, and the short answer is, yes it can be done. It is mainly a materialic challenge; namely, a tensile strength challenge for the cable that engineers would need to solve.

Is your space cap on?: (Its on? Ok great.) Any space elevator would have to be smack dap on the equator, and we would first need to build a structure in geosynchronous orbit at the equator at 42,168 km directly above the earth tether site.

Then comes the tough part. Steel won't cut it for the cable.

If that can get solved, a space elevator will be a great step in sustainable space travel that would make rocket travel look as easy and effortless as cargo ships with smokestacks belching up into the sky.