Space Elevator, Can we build one? |
Space Elevator, Can we build one? |
Aug 22 2005, 12:55 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
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Aug 23 2005, 11:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 723 Joined: 13-June 04 Member No.: 82 |
For information about other means of achieving orbit (and much more), check this page, under 'papers', starting with 'Dynamic Compression Members', continuing with the three 'Orbital Ring Systems and Jacob's Ladders' papers and finishing with 'Supramundane Planets' through to 'How to Move a Planet'. I remember reading these papers in the JBIS and being quite impressed with them -- I particularly liked 'Supramundane Planets'.
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Aug 24 2005, 10:59 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (Mongo @ Aug 24 2005, 12:59 AM) For information about other means of achieving orbit (and much more), check this page, under 'papers', starting with 'Dynamic Compression Members', continuing with the three 'Orbital Ring Systems and Jacob's Ladders' papers and finishing with 'Supramundane Planets' through to 'How to Move a Planet'. I remember reading these papers in the JBIS and being quite impressed with them -- I particularly liked 'Supramundane Planets'. Bill Bill: I hadn't realised that the UK Independence Party (Isle of Wight Branch) (Gilbert and Sullivan Section) had such an influence on speculative space technology! Now, as for Bob Forward... Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Sep 3 2005, 04:41 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
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Sep 12 2005, 07:12 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
Some more news from Space.com:
Space Elevator Gets FAA Lift The LiftPort Group, the space elevator companies, announced September 9 that it has received a waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to use airspace to conduct preliminary tests of its high altitude robotic “lifters.” The lifters are early prototypes of the technology that the company is developing for use in its commercial space elevator to ferry cargo back and forth into space. The tests, which are planned for early fall, will simulate a working space elevator by launching a model elevator “ribbon” attached to moored balloon initially up to a mile high. The robotic lifters will then be tested in their ability to climb up and down the free-hanging ribbon, marking the first-ever test of this technology in the development of the space elevator concept. According to Michael Laine, president of the LiftPort Group in Bremerton, Washington, the FAA go-ahead is a “critical step” in the ultimate developing of the group’s LiftPort Space Elevator concept. |
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