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Space Elevator Games coming July 14

2009-06-21T17:15:07Z

* July 14, 2009
* NASA Dryden Flight Research Center,
Edwards Air Force Base, Mojave, CA
* 6 Teams
[KCSP, LM, USST, NSS, McGill, U MICH]
* 1 km vertical raceway,
laser-powered vehicles
* $2,000,000 Total prize purse (two levels)

[link]

Article in Washington Post discussinf Space Based Solar Power

2008-10-13T20:18:51Z

See article: [link]

Cheers,
Bert

The Vision Thing - Space exploration - Is it an issue in the next elections?

2007-11-26T19:22:17Z

Hi fellow group members,

It's good to be amidst visionaries, in this case supporters Space
Elevator.
I believe it my duty to do all I can to promote and publicize what it
is, why we need it and how we are going to build it.

As you all know, the US presidential election is coming up. The other

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2007-02-07T12:05:56Z

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Postcards To Space

Posted: 06 Feb 2007 10:30 AM CST
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Postcards To Space is developing the world's first space sculpture called STREET, a 325ft. diameter ring made of Kapton, a space-rated plastic film. In flight the craft will digitally display postcards printed on it during construction against the backdrop of Low Earth Orbit.

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2007-02-06T12:05:41Z

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Music for the Space Elevator Ride

Posted: 05 Feb 2007 01:44 PM CST
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The space elevator entered the collective consciousness over 110 years ago through the mind of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and remained largely hidden behind the Iron Curtain until it entered pop culture in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise in 1979.

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2007-02-02T12:05:25Z

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McGill Space Elevator Team

Posted: 01 Feb 2007 03:27 PM CST
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Andrew J.HigginsThe McGill Space Elevator Team (MSET), led by Associate Professor Andrew Higgins and team captain Cyrus Foster MSET has already made significant progress towards their goal of claiming the US$500K first prize in the Climber (Power Beaming) segment of the Spaceward Foundation's 2007 Space Elevator Competition (SEC2K7)

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2007-01-31T12:05:36Z

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Canada Invades the 2007 Space Elevator Competition

Posted: 30 Jan 2007 05:05 PM CST
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The early-bird registration deadline for the 2007 edition of the Elevator 2010 Space Elevator Games is tomorrow and as per the Elevator 2010 teams list 28 teams have already registered. Two in the tether competition and the remaining 26 vying for their part of the US$500K prize money in the climber segment.

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2007-01-26T12:05:14Z

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Space Elevator Journal Turns Two (Months)

Posted: 25 Jan 2007 04:30 PM CST
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I wanted to thank the 252 visitors that generated 418 page views here on the Space Elevator Journal since November 28, 2006. It may not seem like much to some but it's better than I thought I'd do from a standing start especially considering the two weeks around the holidays when things went dead.

Welcome Bert

2007-01-25T13:51:52Z

It seems you have a knack for genesis Bert. Starting the SE group of
your local NSS and now getting in at the very beginning of this
'group'. So far all that's been going on (as you may have figured out)
is that the group is subscribed to the email feed from the SpaceLF8R
Journal.
--PB--

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2007-01-25T12:06:23Z

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Second Biennial Space Elevator Workshop

Posted: 24 Jan 2007 01:10 PM CST
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The second Biennial Space Elevator Workshop takes place at Space Exploration 2007 (SEC 2007) - a four day conference on the theme of “Humankind in Space: Competition or Collaboration.”

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2007-01-22T12:05:38Z

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Super Honeycomb CNT's: New Hope for Space Elevator Tether?

Posted: 21 Jan 2007 11:59 AM CST
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Beijing -- Hope for the space elevator was set back when Nicola Pugno of Politecnico di Torino published a study in August 2006 pointing up problems with the proposed tether design. When Coluci et al proposed the existence of super-nanotubes in August 2006 Signor Pugno turned the problem into an opportunity publishing an evaluation of the strength, toughness and stiffness of super-nanotubes in October 2006 predicting "huge toughening mechanisms [that suggest] the feasibility of 'super-composites'" comparable to nacre (AKA mother-of-pearl).

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2007-01-21T12:04:41Z

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US Government Questions China on Satellite Kill

Posted: 20 Jan 2007 11:55 PM CST
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Washington, DC -- On January 11, 2007 China destroyed one of its old weather satellites by launching a kinetic energy device from a ballistic missile fired from the ground leaving hundreds of pieces of debris orbiting the earth in the path of existing satellites and, potentially, the space elevator (SE).

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2007-01-20T12:04:31Z

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New Space Debris from Chinese Anti-Satellite Weapon Test

Posted: 19 Jan 2007 12:22 PM CST
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Space debris already causes major problems in space elevator design and space operations and the situation just got worse.

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2007-01-18T12:05:20Z

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Designing the Orbital Space Tourism Experience

Posted: 17 Jan 2007 09:50 AM CST
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Some people like art or cars. Techno-journalists are info-geeks who get excited about well-designed web sites engorged with hard information. Couple that with the desire to write about things that will happen after the space elevator is built like space tourism and solar-power satellites and the Space Future (SF) site is pure info-porn.

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2007-01-11T12:09:49Z

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NOVA: Space Elevator - Cheaper, Safer Than Rockets?

Posted: 11 Jan 2007 02:50 AM CST
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The NOVA scienceNOW segment on the space elevator that aired on Tuesday (January 9, 2007) is an excellent introductory explanation of what a space elevator is, carbon nanotubes, beamed power and the challenges involved in making it all come together.