The Starclimber team discusses the new robotics controller they’ve developed in their latest blog post.
Monthly Archives: March 2006
LiftPort March, 2005 General Newsletter Released
Liftport’s Executive VP-Media, Joe Julian, gives an update of their HALE platform, their carbon nanotube factory and robotic lifter and also posts a calendar of coming events that LiftPort personnel will be participating in. The Newsletter can be found here.
Delaware Valley Talk
A member of the Starclimber team will be giving a presentation on space elevators and the Starclimber project to the Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers club.
Verifying the Parabola
The Starclimber team discusses testing the alignment of their parabolic reflector.
Reflector Work
The Starclimber team discusses roughing out their parabolic trough reflector and mentions that they will not be ready for their demo until sometime in April.
Spacescrapers
The Spacescraper blog weighs in on how a Space Elevator will promote the construction of a Spacescraper.
The 62,000-Mile Elevator Ride
LiftPort March, 2006 Technical Newsletter released
In the March Technical Newsletter, LiftPort’s Research Director Tom Nugent writes about “The Lifter Shield: A More Robust Lifter Vehicle.” The Newsletter can be found here.
Moon-Age Nightmare
Proposed: build a skyscraper
At the mensnewsdaily.com blog, Karl Lembke references the proposal for the Republicans to add a plank to their 2006 campaign in support of building a space elevator. Karl notes that Jerry Pournelle has opined that for the cost of the first year’s war in Iraq, the US could have built and launched a solar-power satellite system.
Elevating Elephants
James Miller proposes that the Republicans should add support of a Space Elevator to their 2006 campaign.
Unsolicited Political Advice
Space: The final junkyard
A lengthy article in SFGate.com, the online arm of the San Francisco Chronicle, discusses potential problems that can be caused by space debris. Much of the discussion centers around the danger (real or imagined) that such debris could pose for a space elevator.
LiftPort March, 2006 Art Newsletter released
The “Lead Designer of LiftPort” discusses why he is broke and, incidentally, releases his latest drawings. The Newsletter can be found here.
The Great Space Elevator
Gizmodo says that a Space Elevator would be sexy.