According to the 2050 deadline set by the Japanese business Obayashi, a space elevator will be built.
The elevator will travel 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) into space, carrying passengers and cargo to a new space station. It will serve as a port for the transportation of personnel to Mars and other planets.
“The construction process consists of deploying the cable and constructing the facilities. It is necessary to analyze the cable dynamics in order to estimate the characteristics of the cable, counter-weight, facilities and climbers, and in order to determine the construction procedures.
Parameters for the cable dynamics include tension, displacement and elongation of the cable due to ascending climbers, masses of counter-weight and cable, wind, and fixed loads of facilities.
