Drawings from the Train has a sketch of a Space Elevator. It’s not quite up to Nyein’s standards, but nevertheless, it’s cool that someone would put a sketch like this on their blog…
Daily Archives: May 16, 2006
LiftPort: Opening Space to Everyone
This is the official LiftPort announcement about their long-awaited, newly released book.
AIST Develops method to mass produce Carbon Nanotubes
More good news from the Carbon Nanotube “front” (from Andy Price). Closer and closer…
Researchers create purer, more carbon nanotubes
In his latest announcement email, Andrew Price pointed out a recent article in the Japanese Daily Yomiuri Online (don’t worry – it’s in English) detailing advancements in carbon nanotube production.
If you’re interested in subscribing to Andrew’s announcements, email your request to him at aprice AT healthspace.ca.
Liftport May, 2006 Technical Newsletter released
In this issue, Liftport’s Research Director, Tom Nugent, shares with us slides from two of his presentations at last week’s ISDC 2006 conference (Bob Munck alert – these are .pdf files). He also talks about the new interns arriving at LiftPort and tells us that the long-awaited LiftPort book has finally arrived!! I’ve been looking forward to this book for some time and will be posting a review of it in the next several days.
Also, Andrew Becker is looking for opportunities to use LiftPort’s HALE platform to help site wind power farms.
The newsletter can be found here.
Space Settlement Basics
In this undated (but current) article, author Al Globus talks about Space Settlement and how a Orbital Tower / Space Elevator can make this feasible. According to his bio, Al works at the NASA Ames Research Center as a contractor.