FLOATING TYPE SPACE ELEVATOR UTILIZING ELLIPTICAL ORBIT

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED : To provide a method enabling a round trip to a space without a climber, dispensing with a ground base, facilitating system correction by normal propulsive power, and without requiring excessive centrifugal force. SOLUTION : A method of a floating type space elevator utilizing an elliptical orbit is provided. In a perigee, a spaceship 1 is within an atmosphere, and boarding and alighting of crew members or replenishment of commodities are carried out by using an airship. Further, In the atmosphere, correction of the whole system is performed by using normal propulsive power of the spaceship 1. In an apogee, the spaceship 1 is in an aero-space, and performs sightseeing, astronomic observation or the like. Such a round trip is repeated approximately once a day. SELECTED DRAWING : Figure 1 COPYRIGHT : (C)2017, JPO&INPIT