If the velocity of the armature segments within the motor's stator structure is, say, twice the orbital velocity there, then the outward centrifugal force can exactly balance the weight of stationary structure and live loads with mass equal to the mass of the armature mass stream through that area of the structure. This would be the primary means of support of the motor's weight with its live loads: centrifugal force of the armature mass stream against the tracks within the stator stationary part of the electric motor encircling the earth roughly within an orbital transfer trajectory shape between ground and GEO.

The position of the structure is servo controlled, including fine adjustment of the bridge's weight support. This is done by a different support mechanism, the same as that which lifts the vehicles and their payloads to and from GEO from the ground: electrodynamic drag against the upward-bound part of the mass streams.

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