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Re: Module Airship for Lifting Space Elevator Cables
Hi Ken 01:23 pm: What you are looking for in the FAQ likely is not there as no one has worked out a method to do your 1 though 6 that is probably workable. 1 As far as I know, the only way to reach either near space nor deep space slowly is to use a sp...
Tue, Jan 19 | from LiftPort Group Forums
Re: Can bulk size diamond now be used for a space tower instead of a space elevator?
This is overly simplistic thinking. Trying to build upwards with diamond is just going to take such a huge amount of resources that it is ridiculous. A space elevator weighs like 300,000 kg. That diamond tower would weigh in the billions of kilograms. ...
Mon, Dec 14 | from LiftPort Group Forums
Build the Space Elevator Above Volcano Thermals
In the center of the Second Floor ? its center of gravity ? would be a 3-foot-diameter tube that extends about a half mile back to Earth. ... and more »
Tue, Dec 8 | from Washington Post
Copenhagen: We've got them climate blues
“We should create a space elevator,” he said, referring to the idea of hauling material into space via a fixed cable from Earth to an orbiting base. ... and more »
Sat, Dec 5 | from Times Online
Will the space elevator rise?
I am surprised that so many people are willing to write this off without even taking the time to look through the Spaceward Foundation site (which addresses many of the concerns expressed here). It is no wonder that this nation is falling behind, with such a stagnant attitude towards new te...
Mon, Nov 16 | from MSNBC
LaserMotive Sets New Power Beaming Records at 2009 Space Elevator Games - Nanotechnology News
LaserMotive Sets New Power Beaming Records at 2009 Space Elevator Games LaserMotive, an independent research and development company specializing in laser power beaming technology, has set new scientific records for laser power ... Science & TechnologyCalvin College - Chimes
Fri, Nov 13 | from Nanotechnology News
Space Solar?
I'd love to see this technology becoming commonplace, but I don't honestly see it happening until we find a cheap way to get to orbit. Maybe my other pet sci-fi dream of the space elevator will eventually come to pass and bring space solar along for the ride.
Tue, Sep 29 | from Built on Facts
Review: Space Tethers and Space Elevators
Likewise, the potential of space tethers—close cousins to the space elevator concept, but much less technically challenging given their far shorter ...
Mon, Aug 3 | from The Space Review
Will the First Elevator to Space Be Inflatable?
By Anna Maria Jakubek Posted 06.08.2009 at 5:42 pm 4 Comments For a few years now, we've been excited about the possibility of a cable-based space elevator as an alternative to expensive rocket launchers. To date, though, the various attempts to make ...
Mon, Jun 8 | from popsci.com
Inflatable tower could climb to the edge of space
UK He calculates the tower could be extended up to low Earth orbit at 200 kilometres. The tower does a similar job to the much-vaunted space elevator. But while the elevator envisages using ribbons woven from superstrong nanotubes - a material that is as ...
Mon, Jun 8 | from New Scientist
Book Review: Marsbound by Joe Haldeman
And thus her journey takes her up the Space Elevator on Earth, to the spaceship in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit, and then to Mars itself. There, she finds that even millions of miles from home, people are still the same as always, ...
Mon, Nov 3 | from TC Games And More
Space Elevator Still At Ground Floor
There’s some online buzz wondering if this material would be strong enough to make the space elevator a reality. If you haven’t heard the term, a space elevator is a cable or ribbon that extends about 100,000 km into space from an anchor point on the equator. Glorified elevators car shuffle c...
Tue, Oct 21 | from blogs.discovermagazine.com
Japanese Pursue Space Elevator Concept Invented in Russia
As incredible as it sounds, one of the cheapest ways to get cargo into orbit would be to hoist it on a cable suspended in a stable orbit from space, rather than the traditional launching of expensive chemically-fueled rockets. Japanese engineers now believe that with ultra-strong lightw...
Tue, Oct 7 | from Russia Blog
Horizon highlights - Space elevators, smiling for Google Earth, and when science meets politics
“Now the finest scientific minds of Japan are devoting themselves to cracking the greatest sci-fi vision of all: the space elevator. Man has so far conquered space by painfully and inefficiently blasting himself out of the atmosphere but the 21st century should bring a more leisurely ri...
Fri, Sep 26 | from Christian Science Monitor
Slip The Surly Bonds of Earth -- !!!!!!
A "space elevator", affectionately called "the beanstalk" is a kind of tether which stretches for thousands of miles into space, using the earth's rotation to A "space elevator", affectionately called "the beanstalk" is a kind of tether which stretches for thousands of miles into spa...
Fri, Mar 30 | from Wizbang
New Space Elevator Company: Black Line Ascension
While some of the faces on the segment were new to me, one was familiar, that of Dr. Brad Edwards, credited with the first viable SE design (summarised in his article, The NIAC Space Elevator Program). Although the face was familiar, the affiliation cited was new -- Black Line Ascension -- a c...
Fri, Jan 12 | from Blogcritics
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