Is orbital ring possible?

The orbital ring can be made with nowadays material, but not as easy as shown on the video: Magnetic levitation need superconductor and magnetic field to work, not two magnets expelling each others. A passive magnetic levitation is proved mathematically unstable. Orbital ring is unstable.

What would happen if you built a ring around the Earth?

The Earth may not be our home forever. A world with three million times the area of the Earth – big enough for trillions of humans to call home. You’d live on enormous landmass on the inner side of the ring. The outer shell would protect you and all those trillions of people from the hazards of outer space.

What if we built a ring around Earth?

If we built a giant ring around Earth at just the right height everywhere, then in theory, the ring would just float there once the supports were removed. However, (and this is the reason not to try it) this is an unstable state. If you so much as tap on one side of the ring, the whole thing will come crashing down.

Does Earth have a ring of satellites?

Earth’s ring system: This mosaic shows 46+ geostationary satellites in one image. Earth’s geostationary satellite belt This 10-frame mosaic of Earth’s geostationary satellite belt covers approximately 35 degrees of sky.

What do rings do to a planet?

The rings most likely have minimal effect on the planets, except perhaps as a reservoir for “shooting stars” when the ring material eventually falls into the atmosphere as its orbit decays over time. Although the rings are large, they contain virtually no mass as compared with the planets.

What would happen if we had an orbital ring?

If we had an orbital ring, we could send people to space for a cost comparable to that of a plane ticket. This would cause quite the boom in the space tourism industry. For the first time in our species history, millions and eventually billions of us would be commuting between Earth and space every year due to the ultra-low cost to go to space.

How is the ring connected to the Earth?

The ring is connected to earth via three space elevators. This ring effectively provides near unlimited power to earth. Later in the series the ring also shows space stations mounted on its surface. Orbital rings are used extensively in the collaborative fiction worldbuilding website Orion’s Arm.

What are some examples of orbital rings on other planets?

So, you could build these orbital rings around Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the Sun for example.

How many applications of orbital rings are there?

An overview mentions four applications of orbital rings. Paul Birch published a series of three articles in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society in 1982 that laid out the mathematical basis of ring systems.