Moving payload between the ground and the worksite, GEO, is the major purpose of the KESTS. The spacecraft vehicles traveling along the KESTS to GEO are lifted by inductive electromagnetic drag against the upward moving armature mass streams. This means the vehicles carry no fuel for the journey, nor are they having to receive laser beamed energy to lift them. The spacecraft are connected to the maglev tracks, and have inductive coils inserted close to the upward-bound sides of armature mass streams within the KESTS. Modulating the load resistance on the coils provides the amount of coupling of upward-braking energy delivered to the vehicle as it travels. More efficient coupling will probably use capacitive storage and phase controlled absorption of energy from the upward moving armature maass streams.

Notice that it is all electric. No chemical fuels required for transportation between ground and GEO. This implies two things: that no more fossil fuels need be expended for space launches from the ground; and that once solar electric power stations have been made operational in GEO, some of their electrical energy can be fed back into the mass stream re-accelerators at the earth terminal, providing all the energy needed thereafter to provide continuous transportation between ground and GEO, independent of the earth surface energy sources. This could be very important for long term access to space, when fossil fuels are dwindling and worldwide demand for energy is rapidly increasing.

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