Comments on: Google Earth Space Elevator http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com/?p=168 For scalable, inexpensive access to space... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:27:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Brian http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com/?p=168#comment-17 Brian Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:40:04 +0000 http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com/?p=168#comment-17 It's a breeze. I clicked the file on the post, told my OS to open that file with Google Earth and Bob's Your Uncle - it's in Google Earth. Click the name of the ojbet to zoom to it. Open the object and there are data elements in the object - in this case platform, a lifter, space station at GEO and the distant end. My initial take is that it wasn't to scale - and it's not or you could not see it until you're close. But the altitude of the various bits are spot on. It’s a breeze.

I clicked the file on the post, told my OS to open that file with Google Earth and Bob’s Your Uncle - it’s in Google Earth.

Click the name of the ojbet to zoom to it. Open the object and there are data elements in the object - in this case platform, a lifter, space station at GEO and the distant end.

My initial take is that it wasn’t to scale - and it’s not or you could not see it until you’re close. But the altitude of the various bits are spot on.

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