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Unfortunately, my scheme to trick NASA has now taken over a decade longer than planned and has run way over budget.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3197/
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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The 0 m orbit should be ideal, because it reduces rocket fuel expenses to zero.
Using space elevator technology (metal structural beams and metal guy cables) I think we can get things up to 100m geosynchronous "orbit" pretty easily.
If we utilize the Eiffel technique, we can easily push it to 300 m.