Abstract
One of the principle elements of the International Space Elevator Consortium's (ISEC) action plan towards an operational Space Elevator is to understand its customer utilization. To fully understand the potential application for commercial ventures on the Space Elevator, the concept of a Galactic Harbour is introduced. Galactic Harbour represents continuous operations moving customer payloads on multiple Space Elevators from entry ports to exit ports. These locations would most logically be an Earth Port where customers have their payloads loaded onto Space Elevators and their release points at multiple altitudes per the desires of the customers. The Galactic Harbour would then be the volume incorporating multiple Earth Ports [on the ocean, with incoming and outgoing ships/helicopters and airplanes] and then stretch up in a cylindrical shape to include tethers and other aspects out to the Apex Anchors. Products and payloads [satellites, people, resources, etc.] would enter the Galactic Harbour around the Earth Ports and exit at some point along the tether [to LEO, to GEO region, to Mars, Moon, asteroids, intergalactic, towards the sun] dependent upon where it is released.
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