Talk:SpaceElevatorDeployment

The deployment spacecraft should be largely built with conventional satellite technology.

Work needed on the cimber:

Item	Notes
Overall system engineering	Overall satellite constraints and components need to be defined along with the trade-offs for overall performance and subcomponents
Categorize available electromagnetic propulsion systems of the size required	Define, performance, mass, maturity, cost,
Examine large scale ribbon spooling techniques
Ribbon deployment	dynamics, speed, matching tension in multiple ribons, attaching ribbons end-to-end.
Overall structure design	Minimize mass, design to handle oscillations, operation in unidirectional gravity field (0 - 0.1G)
Operations	Work out a detailed operational scenario including fault handling, despooling and speed control

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