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Anchor, anchorweight
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| The Deimos anchorweight keeps the Martian Elevator in tension | |
Colloquial name for the anchoring mass used to maintain tension on a beanstalk orbital elevator. Anchors may be developed and used as habitat or docking nodes or may be enclosed in a technic membrane and terraformed into low gravity biomes.
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Text by Todd Drashner
Initially published on 16 September 2001.
Initially published on 16 September 2001.
