It is within the realm of possibility to build an Earth base SE with todays materiel. The taper ratio would be 10,000 to 1 using a carbon fiber called T1000....
Okay, this may be a stupid question, but if so please briefly explain why: Could the SE be built like a vertical "ski lift" with stationary cars on a moving...
Is a space elevator worth its weight in diamonds? http://thespacereview.com/article/916/1 by Sam Dinkin Monday, July 23, 2007 In 1975, Jerome Pearson wrote a...
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20030065879_2003074809.pdf I really like the multilooped bits, but I can't believe that he didn't ...
... Nah, you build it in Earth orbit and then just send it across. FWIW if my spreadsheets don't have too many errors in them, I calculate that the weight of a...
For years we have been hearing about how bad cars are for the environment. I work in the aviation industry and the latest buzz is how bad planes are for the...
Reading the few past messages about the flywheel, the climber, laser power, solar power, etc., I wondered about a multi stage climber. We know that flywheel...
For a Martian Space Elevator, the moon Phobos seems to be a problem. Its orbit is at only 1 degree from the equator. Phobos would come very close to colliding...
Here is a link to the Edwards Report. http://www.isr.us/Downloads/niac_pdf/contents.html <http://www.isr.us/Downloads/niac_pdf/contents.html> [Non-text...
Please read my evaluation on the feasibility of space elevators here: http://www.draaisma.net/space-tourism/moon_base_landing.php Now, I know that I'm not...
This will be my last "cry" to you "experts". After that I will unsubscribe, so you guys wil have your peace, as I will have mine. In my language there is a...
Right off, I'm more of an ex-scientist (retired) than a strength-of-materials engineer, so I hope this question has merit. Does the 'ribbon' have to have the...
The base of the Space Elevator (SE) will be sitting in the Pacific Ocean on a ship. Perhaps all that water can be used to advantage. Some of my earliest...
... OK. I think the problem is just terminology. With the stone-on-a-string analogy: hub = your hand, rim = the stone. How fast does your hand move? How fast...
Hello, Havn’t been following developments as much as I would have liked to recently. Can anyone bring me up to speed on where the maximum measured tensile...
Just a quick note ************* LiveScience's Image of the Day Friday May 11, 2007 Record-Breaking Nanotubes "Materials scientists have grown 2-centimeter-long...
Hello Herbert, Recently Liftport forged a really profitable deal with a company based in Malta for the construction of an aerial tramway. It was close held...
did you guys see this? http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?4357 ... Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ...
LiftPort http://www.liftport.com/ has a Liftoff Clock that reads T- 24 YEARS! I'm sorry, but I am in my 50's and not in the best of health. I would like to...
If one believes "Necessity is the mother of invention", then one has to believe LiftPort, or more specifically Michael Liane is reinventing LiftPort from a...
FROM http://www.tethers.com/MAST_Blog.html Over the last couple of days we have been working to fine-tune the operating mode of Gadget to bring its battery...
The X-43 has demonstrated that an air breathing scramjet can obtain Mach 10, and probably could be extended to Mach 15. If a scram jet vehicle (SSTO) was also...
This may not seem to pertain to SE. But the defense of SE from Naval and Space perspective needs to be work out. In turn that will help determine the correct...
To whom it may concern, I am an A level physics student and am doing a research essay on why the space elevator would be feasible and reasons (backed with...
From: http://www.tethers.com/papers/MASTJPC2003Paper.pdf Tethers Unlimited, Inc (TUI) and Stanford University's Space Systems Development Laboratory(SSDL) are...
