/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11923367
They have obvious benefit Mr.noargument.
Being able to keep thousand of people alive without crippling and weighting down your spaceship with life-support mass, they'll be extremely profitably in the long term.
Think of them as the Passenger Liner of space to the new frontier, carrying thousands in multiple cyclers. With the proper technologies they would aerobrake around Mars, disembark their passenger at Deimos/Phobos transfer stations (building the space elevator) and finish their live as material or lander, if refueled they follow the incoming cycler back to Earth.
If we managed to use them conjointly with space tether we could have almost free transport, and the tethers would be useful by themselves.