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Originally Posted by Frost
As John said it really isn't practical at all. There might be ways to get the same effect for small landing vehicles using a variant on a laser launching system. I half remember an article a few years ago during an outbreak of enthusiasm for SPS that speculated on using the output of a power satellite directly as an alternative to a ground based laser. If you can find that you might be able to bash the idea until it fits to get the same result though.
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According to this, with carbon nanotubes they expected to be able to launch a reel reaching all the way down with just 20 tons:
http://web.archive.org/web/200905241..._020327-2.html