2026 ISEC Conference Videos

Videos from the 2026 ISEC Conference held virtually September 12-13, 2026

You can also view our YouTube Playlist for these videos. YouTube provides transcripts. We provide presenter’s slides and papers where available.

2026 ISEC #01 Dennis Wright: Introduction to ISEC 2026 (4:00)

2026 ISEC #02 Steven Griggs: Comparing Space Elevators to Rockets (19:47)

2026 ISEC #03 Peter Swan: Terminology and Missions of Space Elevator Spaceports

2026 ISEC #04 Larry Bartoszek: Laser Power Beaming to Climbers on the Space Elevator

2026 ISEC #05 Anthony Castro: Wireless Energy Transfer for the Space Elevator

2026 ISEC #06 Abby Davis: A Model for Space Elevator Resonance

2026 ISEC #07 Avery Davis: Climber Passing on the Space Elevator

2026 ISEC #08 Yunosuke Kudo: AEGIS Planetary Defense System

2026 ISEC #09 Larry Bartoszek: Waste Heat Rejection from the Climber PV Arrays (SLIDES)

2026 ISEC #10 Dhanush Salunke: Power Conditioning Unit for the 20-ton Climber (SLIDES)

2026 ISEC #11 Rodney Ruoff: New Methods of Large-scale Graphene Production

2026 ISEC #12 Sofia Stahl: Space Radiation Risk Assessments

2026 ISEC #13 Sam Cottle: A Space Elevator to Low-Earth Orbit

2026 ISEC #14 Adrian Nixon: Carbon Nano-threads as Potential Tether Materials

2026 ISEC #15 John Knapman: Solar Power for Tether Climbers

2026 ISEC #16 Valentin Elias Pineda: Future Education in the Space Migration Environment

2026 ISEC #17 Michael Azran: An Atmospheric Space Elevator

2026 ISEC #18 Paul Phister: AI Applications for the Space Elevator System (SLIDES)

2026 ISEC #19 Lachlan Ruff: Commercial Graphene’s Trajectory

2026 ISEC #20 Dennis Wright: New Models for Space Elevator Dynamics Simulations

2026 ISEC #21 Blaise Gassend: Techniques for Space Elevator Simulation (SLIDES)

2026 ISEC #22 Michael Lane: Lunar Space Elevator and Logistics Hub

2026 ISEC #23 Jim Dempsey: Payload Launch Simulations

2026 ISEC #24 Valentin Elias Pineda: Low Cost Galactic Harbour Architectures

2026 ISEC #25 John Eric Soderman: A Non-sea Anchored Space Elevator

2026 ISEC #26 Lars Vadjina: The Orbital Ecosystem

2026 ISEC #27 Mordy Friedman: Update on Space Elevator Competitions