London Tether I

== UK-EXAT - CST-I (London Tether I) ==
=== What is the London Tether I? ===
United Kingdom Exoatmospheric plc's London Tether I is the ground hub for the second British space Elevator (the first being an experimental, turned military, elevator constructed on the Ascension Islands in the Atlantic ocean, see MoDST-I). The tether is a large eleven and a half kilometre tall magnetic acceleration tower that gives accelerates the elevator cargo and passenger platforms to 885m/s at a constant 4G for ten kilometres. The tether connects with the to the elevator shaft from the Thames Estuary, at Coryton, where is extends and meets the Equatorial Lagos station, also constructed by the United Kingdom, as the main hub for all GMT elevator traffic. The elevator was designed, built and manned by the British Government before their absorption into the UEG in 2204.
The tether has a large freighter ship port (DP World London Gateway Port), a four runway airport and its own rail line (Connecting with London, Folkestone and Dover). The tether itself has a large lobby used for international and interplanetary company headquarters, hotels and restaurants, turning it into a small city of itself. The day to day operations are run by the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Off Planet Development, with the border control run by the Home Office.
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