IAC Theme : “Give Space A Chance”

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The IAC Space Elevator session will be held from 3 pm local time on Tuesday October 3rd.

The IAC Session Categories are:

• Science and Exploration

• Applications and Operations

• Technology

• Infrastructure

• Space and Society

Our Space Elevator themed technical session is D4.3 “Modern Day Space Elevator Customer Design Drivers.”

Design concepts to support permanent space access infrastructures are driven from many arenas, such as the dynamics of deploying tether climbers on a 100,000 km tether stretching across the space environment from the surface of the ocean to well beyond geosynchronous orbit.

Other design drivers include environmental challenges ranging from the ocean and atmospheric demands near the Earth Port to the tremendous temperature range and environmental challenges of the vacuum of space.

In addition, architects and systems engineers must consider a vast range of requirements from customers. The demands of a million tonnes deposited on the surface of Mars (or The Moon) and the GEO requirement of 3,000,000 tonnes of space solar power satellites solidifies requirements to move massive payloads routinely, daily, inexpensively, and oriented to customers’ needs.

The dramatic need to accomplish all of this without damaging the Earth’s atmosphere means the ‘Green Road to Space’ must be realized. These customer demands will lead to the realization that Space Elevators will enable missions of vast importance to humanity (“Saving the Planet” with delivery of Space Solar Power satellites, Lunar habitat and Mars settlement support, and missions to the outer planets).

The session will discuss needs of Space Elevators’ future customers, start the refinement of design criteria and identify customer requirements necessary to initiate realistic designs.

Submitted session papers and speaker status are shown below (updated 25-Sept-2023), with 10 confirmed presentations by eight speakers from Canada, China, Japan and the UK.

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