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Re: Module Airship for Lifting Space Elevator Cables

19 Jan 2010 21:14:30 PST

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...

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Re: Module Airship for Lifting Space Elevator Cables

13 Jan 2010 10:17:16 PST

Let me try to explain the current thinking. The full length starter ribbon on a spool will be lifted to LEO on a rocket (about 20 tons of ribbon). Other rockets would lift photo voltaic cell arrays, an ion engine, etc. These would be assembled in LEO...

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Re: Module Airship for Lifting Space Elevator Cables

13 Jan 2010 08:44:49 PST

Thank you again Andrew for your comments regarding the question: “How will the first CNT cable be deployed between the Earth and a space elevator anchor station orbiting (at GEO) 22,000 +/- miles apart and both traveling independently at +/- 16,000 mph...

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Re: Module Airship for Lifting Space Elevator Cables

10 Jan 2010 02:21:54 PST

After a cargo balloon reaches the Skyship, the balloon’s gas is emptied into a fuel storage tank and the balloon is flatten into a solar sail. A power beam on top of the Skyship pushes the solar sail into space. A GPS transponder tells the power beam t...

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Re: Can bulk size diamond now be used for a space tower instead of a space elevator?

14 Dec 2009 19:09:42 PST

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. ...

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Build the Space Elevator Above Volcano Thermals

08 Dec 2009 12:00:45 PST

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 »

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Space elevator news and blogs - February 26, 2010

26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 PDT

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• Re: Module Airship for Lifting Space Elevator Cables -- from LiftPort Group Forums
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• Re: Module Airship for Lifting Space Elevator Cables -- from LiftPort Group Forums
• Re: Module Airship for Lifting Space Elevator Cables -- from LiftPort Group Forums
• Re: Module Airship for Lifting Space Elevator Cables -- from LiftPort Group Forums
• Re: Module Airship for Lifting Space Elevator Cables -- from LiftPort Group Forums
• Re: Module Airship for Lifting Space Elevator Cables -- from LiftPort Group Forums
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• Re: Like ski lifts climbing mountains, lift in stages, swap out lifters -- from LiftPort Group Forums
• Space Elevator Miscellany… -- by Ted Semon from The Space Elevator Blog

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Copenhagen: We've got them climate blues

05 Dec 2009 13:26:01 PST

“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 »

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Will the space elevator rise?

16 Nov 2009 17:05:18 PST

Written by FreeFall
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...

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LaserMotive Sets New Power Beaming Records at 2009 Space Elevator Games - Nanotechnology News

13 Nov 2009 06:52:51 PST

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

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Space Solar?

29 Sep 2009 22:22:37 PDT

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.

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Review: Space Tethers and Space Elevators

03 Aug 2009 08:22:12 PDT

Likewise, the potential of space tethers—close cousins to the space elevator concept, but much less technically challenging given their far shorter ...

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Will the First Elevator to Space Be Inflatable?

08 Jun 2009 14:55:01 PDT

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 ...

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Inflatable tower could climb to the edge of space

08 Jun 2009 02:25:16 PDT

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 ...

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Book Review: Marsbound by Joe Haldeman

03 Nov 2008 10:56:09 PST

Written by tcgames
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, ...

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Space Elevator Still At Ground Floor

21 Oct 2008 14:31:01 PDT

Written by Stephen Cass
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...

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Japanese Pursue Space Elevator Concept Invented in Russia

07 Oct 2008 16:00:00 PDT

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...

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Horizon highlights - Space elevators, smiling for Google Earth, and when science meets politics

26 Sep 2008 08:53:28 PDT

Written by cgaylord
“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...

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Will the space elevator rise?

24 Jul 2008 11:25:23 PDT

Written by Terry Thomas / Atlanta, Georgia USA
A lot of people writing here are concerned about winds at high altitudes and space debris. So why not prove the Space Elevator concept as part of our return trip to the moon? That is, use robots and astronauts to put a space elevator on the moon.

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Will the space elevator rise?

24 Jul 2008 10:24:05 PDT

Written by Tim Rommes, Washington, UT
Very well done. I’m the one who put up the kite scenario. In a hurricane high winds would be seen up to 12 to 15 miles. They would act against the profile of the ribbon. You indicate it will have quite the profile. WCS is a cat 5 going static with the cable near the eye, maybe 20% out. We now have nom...

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Will the space elevator rise?

21 Jul 2008 21:04:49 PDT

Written by John Doe, Seattle, Washington
Why should spend more money in global warming; Space elevators will solve some of the issue, rockets become part obsolete which currently pollute immensely the air. After we throw in space one millions rockets you will see what we are talking about.

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Will the space elevator rise?

20 Jul 2008 16:15:57 PDT

Written by Claude, Bonney Lake, Wa.
Has anybody ever even thought about using the laser beam itself as the tether. Since we use a laser beam for missle guidance systems. Why not think about that? It may work better that a "nanotube" tether. And to power it with laser sounds good too.

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Will the space elevator rise?

20 Jul 2008 11:10:05 PDT

Written by Jeff Barsky, Las Vegas, Nevada
Drag on tether versus length of tether = Insignificant Terrorist blow up the space station = Maybe 200 miles of cable comes down to earth (hence the oceanic based attachment points): I think Kim Stanley Robinson was wrong, but it made great science fiction.

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Slip The Surly Bonds of Earth -- !!!!!!

30 Mar 2007 15:27:08 PDT

Written by FrauBudgie
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...

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New Space Elevator Company: Black Line Ascension

12 Jan 2007 02:46:50 PST

Written by Patrick Boake
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...

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New Space Elevator Company: Black Line Ascension

12 Jan 2007 02:46:50 PST

Written by Patrick Boake
Space Elevator (SE) professionals and aficionados alike are excited about the recent coverage of the SE on PBS' NOVA scienceNOW. There was a 12-minute segment on the January 9 (2007) show available in three formats with high/low speed feeds for each (see below).While some of the faces on t...

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