Theme: “Responsible Space for Sustainability”
Sponsored by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF)
Event link : https://www.iafastro.org/events/iac/international-astronautical-congress-2024/
The Space Elevator Technical Session will be D4.3 as previous years.
The provisional schedule is posted below, the very latest version is available via this link.
Session Title
Modern Day Space Elevator Transformational Strengths and their Applications
Description
Modern Day Space Elevator design concepts are driven from many arenas : the customer is the first driver, but transformational strengths determine mission fulfillment.
Once the tether is in place and the tether climbers start raising payloads, the remarkable characteristics will start to dominate the movement of mass. This symposia will address how the following characteristics impact mission success for the customers :
(a) Unmatched efficiencies with daily, routine, safe, and inexpensive payload deliveries
(b) Unmatched massive movement [ initial Operational Capability 30,000 tonnes/yr, growing to Full Operational Capability of 170,000 tonnes/yr over multiple tethers]
(c) Unmatched release velocity (starting at 7.76 km/sec at 100,000 km altitude for rapid transits to the Moon, Mars and beyond)
(d) Environmentally neutral operations as a green road to space
(e) Reduces rocket fairing design limitations
(f) Assembly at the top of the gravity well
(g) Transforming the economic strengths of strategic investment, ubiquitous access and uninterrupted exchange of resources.
The Keynote Speech for this technical session is the "Jerome Pearson Memorial Lecture."
IPC members
Co-Chair: Dr. Peter Swan, Teaching Science and Technology, Inc (TSTI), United States
Co-Chair: Dr. Yoji Ishikawa, Obayashi Corporation, Japan
Rapporteur: Dr. Jerry Eddy, International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC), United States
Provisional Schedule, uploaded 24-April-2024