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A Martian space elevator can be built with high tensile steel, and will be shorter than one on the moon. I like space elevators, but they work better on smaller bodies with higher rotation, i.e., low gravity and lower stationary orbits.
yeah but the moon is close and makes a faster easier testbed. I would actually like to have it followed up by a martian one.