Space Elevator Climber Engineering
The Climber is a fundamental part of any Space Elevator system, but there will not be a single design, and perhaps not even a single operational concept. The Earth Space Elevator will be developed over a sequence as outlined in Architecture Note #6 and elsewhere, and the climber design will evolve and change through the stages of the sequence.
Follow links below for more material on Space Elevator Climber Engineering
2013 Position Paper
Get the 2013 Study on Climber Design Considerations
2013 conference paper
on solar power strategy
Follow this link for a page based on a paper presented at the 2013 ISEC conference discussing speed and power strategies for solar-powered climbers
2019 conference paper
Follow this link for a page based on a paper presented at the 2019 ISEC conference discussing climber design strategies related to the tether interface.
It was also presented in 2020 at this event.