"It’s not enough to deliver a bunch of new features – those features have to be woven together into a stable, polished whole," said Simpson. Simpson states a reason for the delay is partially due to the "immense technical and creative challenge" with the sequel. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Now, according to creative director Nate Simpson, it will be 2022 before we get our hands on it.
Originally set to release sometime this year, back in May the studio delayed Kerbal Space Program 2 into fall 2021 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One due to complications from COVID-19. Sorry this got rather long and rambly but I just really like space elevators and I tend to write a lot when I have something to talk about.Kerbal Space Program 2 has seen another delay, and this time, it's being pushed into 2022. Due to the length it would wrap around the planet and carve a rather devastating valley all around the planet and by the end the cable would be travelling near if not at terminal velocity: causing the impact to instantly turn the cable to plasma and making a shockwave most likely comparable to a small atom bomb. Though, in that same novel we also see just how catastrophic it would be if such an elevator disconnected from its tether and deorbited. Due to the altitude the elevator is at, the creators put in a planned oscillation to avoid the orbits of either Phobos, Deimos, or both. The material is manufactured into a form of carbon nanotube mesh that is built by advanced robotics facilities placed on the asteroid beforehand. In the book Red Mars we see people construct a space elevator for Mars using the material from a carbonaceous (if I recall right) asteroid. Though, any mass changes to the planet would happen over many decades if not centuries anyway so that isn't really much of a concern.Īccepting that novels are not the best source of information, I am still going to reference one in the next section with the decent assumption that, this one being a very heavily in-depth sci-fi one the author did their research well (and it seemed they did while I was reading it, at least nothing sounded outright false). What's great about the balancing game played is that Earth would essentially remain at the same mass regardless of what we did simply because we would be forced to ensure we balance everything out. While that might sound silly, an elevator would lower the cost of moving things into/out of orbit by such an amount that there would be significant profit to be made from mining the asteroid belt. One of the main ideas I can recall for dealing with the counterbalance mass would be to mine asteroids in the asteroid belt and use that material to balance out the elevator. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by counter-balancing a 10-ton rocket: with a space elevator you wouldn't need the rocket, you could just send up the half-ton of payload that that rocket would probably be carrying. The cable might get an oscillation but that could be countered by strategic placement of control thrusters or ailerons along with a touchdown point that could keep the cable relatively taught.
I do realize that the weather we have can be fairly extreme but even a nicely sealed house can withstand even the most devastating winds (as the main issue comes when it gets indoors or underneath things that it can lift with brute force alone). While I don't claim to have calculated any of it out I doubt that a cable stretching through the entire multiple thousands of kilometers into our atmosphere to be firmly anchored and balanced by the mass of a small asteroid would be affected very much by some air currents. I feel like you're underestimating the amount of mass a cable of this size would have.
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