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Japanese Team Creates Working Space Elevator... Made of Lego Blocks
2008-07-21 12:27:00 From Gizmodo: For those of you who know what a space elevator is, you also know how difficult (some would say impossible) it will be to create one. Well, don't tell that to the starry-eyed guys in Redmond this weekend, who are attending the annual Space Elevator Conference 2008. An
Space Elevator Test Run
2008-05-03 16:11:00 “Although the day started with difficulties, it ended with a successful 1000 foot space elevator test climb to a tethered 10-foot diameter balloon - LiftPort’s first really significant climb. This was supposed to be a 1 mile climb test, but the FAA-required aviation orange paint - applied at 50 foot intervals to the ribbon - ...
By: ZA Vibes
Space Elevator - megastructure concept
2008-05-03 12:00:00 Space Elevator (a.k.a : space bridges, space lifts, orbital elevators ) Space Elevator is designed to transport material from earth surface into space as a way of non-rocket spacelaunch. Visions of the future - Space elevator ...
By: ByREV Blog-u
Space Elevator- Modern Day Erie Canal?
2007-11-02 20:59:00 Very interesting article over at TCS: [A Modern Day Erie Canal] The premise being that a functioning space elevator would have a similar impact on space exploration, commerce, migration, and general usage that the Erie Canal had on New York City, New York State, the United states as a whole and in the end the world. The one point that the author of the piece doesn't hammer home enough is the impact that the Canal had on NY City. Prior to completion of the canal NYC was the smaller, less important city when compared to Boston. Soon after its completion, NYC became the hub of the entire eastern seaboard and never looked back. The Erie Canal alone was what drove NYC to prominence. A completed Space Elevator at the disposal of the US will only solidify the US preeminence in the world economy for the rest of the 21st Century.
By: techRivet
Space Elevator Competition Shows Promising Future
2007-10-25 19:05:00 Artist's depiction of a space elevator The annual Space Elevator Games were held this past Monday in Farmington, Utah. Student teams designed 100-meter-tall space elevators in the competition, and the winning team's robot came close to winning NASA's half-million-dollar prize. read more
Space elevator: LiftPort closed?
2007-04-17 21:24:00 It looks like LiftPort, one of the companies leading the field in developing viable space elevator technology, is no more. There is no official word yet from LiftPort itself, although founder Michael Laine announced the loss of the company’s offices at the Conference on World Affairs on Saturday [transcript]. The LiftPort Staff Blog has also ...
By: KuiperCliff
Space Elevator Lift Ticket
2007-04-11 00:11:00 Came across this while looking for ski lift tickets on ebay. Lift-Port Space Elevator The LiftPort Group is dedicated to building a mass transp...
Space Elevator Patented
2006-12-30 15:27:10 Space Elevator PatentedAs was pointed out on one of the Yahoo Groups that I frequent, a patent (#6491258) has been issued to Lockheed Martin for a space elevator. This type of space elevator is different from the space elevator envisioned by Tsiolkovsky, Artsutanov, Clarke, Edwards, Laine and so on; for the Lockheed design, the bottom of the elevator is not affixed to the surface of the earth, but is instead itself located in a "substantially fixed orbital distance from the surface of the earth".Technorati Tags: Space Elevator, Patent, Lockheed Martin
By: robot guy
Regarding the Space Elevator/Cable Concept
2006-10-17 02:39:01 Why can't a monofilament (fishing) line be sent aloft by balloon, then transferred to a jet hook/link and taken higher, then picked up by a shuttle, a...
How Could a Space Elevator Survive Lightning?
2006-09-22 05:30:04 In all the discussions of the space elevator concept that I have read, the question of lightning damage has never been raised. Even if the elevator is...
When Bad Ideas Meet: CNT and the Space Elevator
2006-09-19 05:03:04 I've always found the idea of a space elevator a bit outlandish. Basically the idea is that we lash a piece of cable to a large space object in a geo... |
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