Elon explains how to build anything with first principles pic.twitter.com/DTBuEfazi7
— TaraBull (@TaraBull) May 9, 2026
I’m working on a lunar skycrane project, and doing a trade on how/when to unreel/reel the tether, but I’m thinking about simplifying by simply making it fixed length.
Make your tether long enough so that your canted thrusters aren’t blowing dust around so much to obstruct your ground view or the workers below while the object being hoisted is on the surface and no longer. Use the thrusters for all else. Variable canter?
The best part is no part.
Never optimize a process for the edge case, optimize it for the base rate.