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This is how the skyhook and launch loop work in tandem to slow down incoming payloads and accelerate outgoing payloads to higher orbit. Not completely to scale. The launch loop is a couple kilometers high.

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Jackalgirl

I’ve loved the concept of skyhooks since I read about them in “Seveneves” - thank you for this fantastic visualization! I’m looking forward to seeing more of this tech in action in RttS! <3

Anonymous

I know the placement of drop-off/pick-up is important physics-wise and that you’re showing different objects being moved, but every time I watch this gif I imagine the skyhook dropping something off at one end and then coming back, snatching it up, and flinging it again before it can get out of the launch zone 😁