| 1979 A. C. Clarke Fountains of Paradise 157
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Whatever problems might still lie ahead, no one doubted now that the Orbital Tower was an idea whose time had come.
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| 1979 A. C. Clarke Fountains of Paradise 160
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For the very first time the construction of the proposed Orbital Tower gives us a chance of establishing fixed observatories in the ionosphere.
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| 1979 A. C. Clarke Fountains of Paradise 51
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At last we can build the Space Elevator—or the Orbital Tower, as I prefer to call it. For in a sense it is a tower, rising clear through the atmosphere, and far, far beyond ‥
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| 1992 F. Pohl Mining Oort (1993) 6
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It was Artsutanov who proposed that if one were to position a satellite in geostationary orbit right over a planet's equator, and hang a cable thirty-six thousand kilometres long from it, the whole lash-up would amount to an “orbital tower”.
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