“Climber/Tether Interface of the Space Elevator” Study Report now available !

The 2023 ISEC Study is now complete.
Starting in late 2020, the “Climber/Tether Interface of the Space Elevator” Study has taken over two years to progress to the report “preprint” stage, pending submission for peer-reviewed publication.
The task was led by ISEC Vice-President Dennis Wright, with the assistance of co-authors Larry Bartoszek, AJ Burke, David Dotson, Hassan El Chab, John Knapman, Martin Lades, Adrian Nixon, Paul Phister, Ph.D, P.E. and Peter Robinson.

Thanks also to Isha Parvaiz, FRAS and Fedor Sulitskiy of KCL Space for acting as early reviewers.

Follow this link for the Executive Summary.

The full study can be downloaded from the OSF preprint server at https://osf.io/d3fm7/ .

Image credit : Larry Bartozsek

Videos from IAC2021 now on YouTube Channel

In recent weeks a number of video summaries of #SpaceElevator papers presented at IAC2021 have been loaded to our YouTube channel : follow this link to view them all.

In general these videos explain how Space Elevators will enable easy access to space and other planets, but the most recent (by computational scientist Dr David Dotson) explains how they will also have a profound impact on our own planet by addressing #ClimateAction … here’s the video …

New Space Journal Article: "Space Solar Power Enabled by Dual Space Access Architecture”

Published in New Space Journal – authors: Michael Fitzgerald and Peter Swan - Sept 2021

ABSTRACT 

This article presents the concept that Space Elevators enable space solar power (SSP) architecture. An SSP constellation will significantly impact the climate change equation by slowing the increase in greenhouse gases across the globe. This article proposes that there is a dramatic need for permanent infra- structures that can move massive amounts of tonnage to Geo- synchronous Orbit (GEO) in a routine, daily, safe, and an Earth friendly manner. It lays out the concept of a Dual Space Access Architecture where rockets and Space Elevators are both compatible and complementary.VOL. 9 NO. 3􏰀2021NEW SPACE https://bit.ly/3lzNxCO