“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 …