An inflatable tower nine miles tall and tethered to a mountain top could cut the cost to launch spacecraft, reduce the need for geostationary communications satellites and improve cell phone signals. ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An inflatable space tower tall enough to launch spacecrafthas been proposed by Brendan Quine, Raj ...

Inflatable pneumatic modules already used in some spacecraft could be assembled into a 15-kilometre-high tower. Brendan Quine, Raj Seth and George Zhu at York University in Toronto, Canada, wrote in ...

Pembroke, Ont.-based Thoth Technology has patented an inflatable tower that could carry a "space elevator" higher than passenger jets fly – and eventually into low-Earth orbit. The patent, which has ...

An inflatable free standing tower could one day carry equipment and tourists 20 kilometers above Earth, and it could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator, say researchers at York ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Canadian space company has been granted a United States patent for a 20-kilometre-tall inflatable tower from which astronauts and ...