[FPSPACE] FW: [lunar-update] Space Elevator

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: "Larry Kellogg" <larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net>
>To: <lunar-update at news.altair.com>
>Subject: [lunar-update] Space Elevator
>Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:51:12 -0700
>
>Good evening,
>
>Good evening.
>
>Will be driving up to Washington State tomorrow to see my folks and will
>probably be off line for a couple of days.  Give you time to think about
>what you would like to look up and see.
>- LRK -
>
>John Reed sent a link about the NASA Challenge Competitions, which includes
>a Teather Challenge.
>- LRK -
>
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>http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/apr/HQ_06189_Centennial.html
>Michael Braukus/Dolores Beasley
>Headquarters, Washington
>(202) 358-1979/1753
>
>April 18, 2006
>RELEASE: 06-189
>
>Five NASA Centennial Challenges Competitions Open For Registration
>
>NASA announced Tuesday the opening of team registration for five Centennial
>Challenges prize competitions with cash prizes totaling more than $1
>million.
>
>Teams from industry, academia, and the public may formally begin their
>participation by contacting NASA's collaborator, or allied organization,
>responsible for administering each competition. The prize competitions and
>allied organizations that are accepting team registrations are:
>
>- Astronaut Glove Challenge, administered by Volanz Aerospace/Spaceflight
>America with a total prize value of $250,000.
>- Beam Power Challenge, administered by the Spaceward Foundation as part of
>the annual Space Elevator Games with a total prize value of $200,000.
>- Lunar Regolith Excavation Challenge, administered by the California Space
>Education & Workforce Institute with a total prize value of $250,000.
>- MoonROx (Moon Regolith Oxygen) Challenge, administered by the Florida
>Space Research Institute with a total prize value of $250,000.
>- Tether Challenge, administered by the Spaceward Foundation as part of the
>annual Space Elevator Games with a total prize value of $200,000.
>
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>If a space elevator is developed you will have something to look at.
>
>In the mean time, thanks for looking up with me.
>- LRK -
>
>
>Larry Kellogg
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>John Reed sent this link about NASA’s challenge grants. - LRK -
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>You probably already know about these challenge grants, but I thought it 
>was
>interesting that 2 of them went to the space elevator folks--not long ago,
>that was considered seriously "out there" science fiction...
> 
>http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/apr/HQ_06189_Centennial.html
> 
> 
>Also, kudos to the folks at the Cassini web site, I sent them a question
>regarding parking the probe in orbit around Titan or Enceladus once the
>primary mission was over...I asked about delta-v and slingshot maneuvers
>around other moons to help...their reply was prompt and informative--their
>P/R has been exceptional throughout the mission, and should be used as a
>model for getting the public involved in future missions--they even won a
>Webby!
> 
>J
> 
>...in deepest, darkest, SE GA
>
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>http://www.spaceelevator.com/
>The Space Elevator Reference brought to you by SpaceRef
>Scientific, engineering, economic and policy challenges inherent in
>constructing the solar systems first space elevator.
>www.spaceelevator.com/ - 21k - Cached - Similar pages
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>The Space Elevator Reference
>
>Fiction or reality? With recent advancements in technology many people now
>believe it is possible to build a space elevator. This site will serve as a
>reference tool for those interested in exchanging ideas on the scientific,
>engineering, economic and policy challenges inherent in constructing the
>solar system's first space elevator.
>
>Marc Boucher, editor.
>
>What is a Space Elevator?
>
>A space elevator is a physical connection from the surface of the Earth, or
>another planetary body such as Mars, to a geostationary Earth orbit (GEO -
>In the case of Earth) above the Earth at roughly 35,786 km in altitude.
>
>It is hoped that someday a space elevator would be utilized as a
>transportation and utility system for moving people, payloads, power, and
>gases between the surface of the Earth and space. It makes the physical
>connection from Earth to space in the same way a bridge connects two cities
>across a body of water. (Source: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, 
>Advanced
>Space Infrastructure Workshop on Geostationary Orbiting Tether Space
>Elevator Concepts, slightly modified)
>
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>http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_elevator_020327-1.h
>tml
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>The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality
>By Leonard David
>Senior Space Writer
>posted: 07:00 am ET
>27 March 2002
>
>SPACE.com -- The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality
>Forget the roar of rocketry and those bone jarring liftoffs, the elevator
>would be a smooth 62000-mile (100000-kilometer) ride up a long cable.
>www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_elevator_020327-1.html -
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>http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast07sep_1.htm
>
>The Audacious Space Elevator
>NASA Science News: Two orbiting NASA satellites are giving scientists an
>unprecented view of what goes on beneath the obscuring cloudtops of great
>swirling ...
>science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast07sep_1.htm - 21k - Cached - Similar
>pages
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
>
>Space elevator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
>A space elevator is a hypothetical structure designed to transport material
>from a planet's surface into space. Many different types of space elevator
>structures have been proposed. They all share the goal of replacing rocket
>propulsion with the traversal of a fixed structure via a mechanism not
>unlike an elevator, hence its name, in order to move material into or 
>beyond
>orbit. Space elevators have also sometimes been referred to as beanstalks,
>space bridges, space lifts, space ladders or orbital towers.
>
>The most common proposal is a tether, usually in the form of a cable or
>ribbon, that spans from the surface to a point beyond geosynchronous orbit.
>As the planet rotates, the inertia at the end of the tether counteracts
>gravity and keeps the tether taut. Vehicles can then climb the tether and
>escape the planet's gravity without the use of rockets. Such a structure
>could eventually permit delivery of great quantities of cargo and people to
>orbit, and at costs only a fraction of those associated with current means.
>
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>http://www.liftport.com/
>
>LiftPort - The Space Elevator Company
>The LiftPort Group (LPG) is dedicated to building a mass transportation
>system to open up access to the inner solar system (LEO, GEO, the Moon,
>Mars, and asteroids). The Space Elevator will be at the heart of this
>revolutionary transportation service. By opening up broad-based access to
>Earth orbits and the inner solar system, LPG will help bring about the
>creation of entire new markets. Based in space commerce, these new markets
>can only become viable through safe, inexpensive, routine access to the
>inner solar system. In short, we at LiftPort Group believe that development
>of the space elevator is a crucial step in the future of Earth and space.
>
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>http://www.elevator2010.org/site/index.html
>
>The Space Elevator - Elevator:2010
>November 15: Spaceward announces details for 2006 Space Elevator Games.
>(rulebooks); October 21-23: First annual Space Elevator games held by
>Spaceward at ...
>www.elevator2010.org/ - 16k - Cached - Similar pages
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>Climbing The Sky
>
>The dream of a Space Elevator is a monumental one. A vision that will not
>only further space exploration and knowledge, but has the potential to 
>shape
>the existential future of the human race for centuries to come.
>
>For the first time since it was initially conceived, this dream is now
>within our reach.
>
>Elevator 2010 has joined the massive construction effort, adding energy,
>resources and new initiatives to the ever-growing number of organizations,
>companies, websites and enthusiasts focused on the technical, political and
>economic development of the Space Elevator.
>
>We firmly believe that the set of technologies that underlie the infinite
>promise of the Space Elevator can be demonstrated, or proven infeasible,
>within a 5 year time-frame.
>
>And hence our name. Elevator:2010. we promise to get an answer for you by
>then.
>
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>http://www.isr.us/SEHome.asp
>
>Institute for Scientific Research, Inc. - Space Elevator
>Technical details, meetings, images, and FAQs about building a space
>elevator.
>www.isr.us/SEHome.asp - 27k - Cached - Similar pages
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>     The Space Elevator: 3rd Annual International Conference
>     The-Space-Elevator at isr.us.
>     http://www.isr.us/Spaceelevatorconference/
>
>A space elevator is a revolutionary concept of getting from Earth into
>space, a ribbon with one end attached to Earth on a floating platform
>located at the equator and the other end in space beyond geosynchronous
>orbit (35,800 km altitude).
>
>The space elevator would ferry satellites, spaceships, and pieces of space
>stations into space using electric lifts clamped to the ribbon, serving as 
>a
>means for commerce, scientific advancement, and exploration.
>
>The discovery of carbon nanotubes and the ongoing development to implement
>them into a composite is the key to space elevator viability being achieved
>in the coming years.
>
>ISR is researching a space elevator capable of lifting 5-ton payloads every
>day to all Earth orbits, the Moon, Mars, Venus or the asteroids. The first
>space elevator would reduce lift costs immediately. Additional and larger
>elevators, built utilizing the first one, would allow large-scale manned 
>and
>commercial activities in space and reduce lift costs even further.
>
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>http://science.howstuffworks.com/space-elevator.htm
>
>When the Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off on April 12, 1981, from Kennedy
>Space Center, Fla., to begin the first space shuttle mission, the dream of 
>a
>reusable spacecraft was realized. Since then, NASA has launched more than
>100 missions, but the price tag of space missions has changed little.
>Whether it is the space shuttle or the non-reusable Russian spacecraft, the
>cost of a launch is approximately $10,000 per pound ($22,000 per kg).
>
>While the space shuttle is reusable, missions are still very infrequent and
>expensive, with each launch costing an estimated half a billion dollars. A
>new space transportation system being developed could make travel to
>Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) a daily event and transform the global
>economy.
>
>science.howstuffworks.com/space-elevator.htm - 36k - Cached - Similar pages
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>http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57536,00.html
>
>Wired News: To the Moon in a Space Elevator?
>By Steve Kettmann  Steve Kettmann | Also by this reporter
>02:00 AM Feb, 04, 2003 EST
>
>The Columbia disaster could spur faster development of a radically 
>different
>approach to reaching outer space: the space elevator.
>
>Long imagined by science-fiction writers but seen by others as hopelessly
>far-fetched, the space-elevator concept has advanced dramatically in recent
>years along with leaps forward in the design of carbon nanotubes. Using the
>lightweight, strong carbon material, it's feasible to talk of building a
>meter-wide "ribbon" that would start on a mobile ocean platform at the
>equator, west of Ecuador, and extend 62,000 miles up into space.
>
>www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57536,00.html - 27k - Cached - Similar
>pages
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>http://liftwatch.org/tiki-view_articles.php
>Space Elevator News
>Research news on launching by cables extending into space. Frequently
>updated.
>liftwatch.org/ - 1k - Apr 17, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages
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>WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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