space elevator
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 24 (24)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 24A space elevator from the ground to a geostationary point could be built if ultrastrong nanomaterials were mass produced.
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 47The first space elevator travels at about 1,500 km/h and needs roughly twenty hours to reach geosynchronous orbit.