Could you attach a cable to the moon?

Originally Answered: Can we connect Moon and Earth via cable? No, it’s in orbit and so the cable would snap. It would only be possible if the Earth always presented the same face to the moon. It would be possible between Pluto and Charon, since they are much closer in size and both are tidally locked.

Could you run a cable to space?

A cable that reaches into orbit could work — but only if researchers can find a strong enough material to build it.

Can we connect Earth to Moon?

Scientists have proposed a method to connect the Earth and the moon with a cable that will allow us to travel between them, but the European Space Agency isn’t convinced. They found that materials such as Zylon, a polymer carbon, would allow us to build a tower or cable between the moon and Earth’s geostationary orbit.

Could we build a bridge to the moon?

No. The earth and moon are in constant motion. The rotation of the Earth alone makes it impossible. More to the point, a bridge stretching hundreds of thousands of miles would require enormous amount of material to be transported into space at great cost.

Is a moon elevator possible?

According to a study published in 2019, a lunar elevator could be the answer. A cable anchored to the lunar surface would stretch most of the 400,000km (250,000 miles) home. It couldn’t be directly attached to the Earth, due to the relative motions of the two objects, but it could terminate high in Earth orbit.

Is an orbital elevator possible?

A space elevator is possible with today’s technology, researchers say (we just need to dangle it off the moon) Space elevators would dramatically reduce the cost of reaching space but have never been technologically feasible.

Will there be a space elevator?

Since 2013, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) has issued reports highlighting the need for a Space Elevator, culminating in 2018 with the release of the “Road to the Space Elevator Era.” The report concluded that the ability to mass-produce single-crystal graphene (stronger than carbon nanotubes) means …

What would happen if we put a cable on the Moon?

Any cable attached to earth and the moon would wrap around earth over time. Attaching the cable in the polar region of earth is not going to help much without some kind of an “untangler” in space because the plane of the moon’s trajectory (its orbital inclination) is not polar with respect to earth.

Could a cable that reaches into orbit work?

A cable that reaches into orbit could work — but only if researchers can find a strong enough material to build it. Astronaut Roy McBride peers out over the Earth at the start of the new sci-fi flick Ad Astra. It’s not an unusual view for him.

Is it necessary to earthed a wire armoured cable?

Regardless of whether the armouring of a steel wire armoured cable (swa) is employed as a protective conductor or not, it should always be effectively earthed to ensure the requirements of ADS are met.

Why doesn’t the Moon orbit the Earth in the same direction?

Since the moon is not in geostationary orbit around the earth, that is: it doesn’t orbit the earth at the same speed that the earth rotates (aka lunar month is different from earth day), thus the moon appears over different places of earth. Any cable attached to earth and the moon would wrap around earth over time.