The ISEC eNewsletter for July has just been released and is available here. All ISEC eNewsletters are available here.
Stories include announcements about the upcoming Conference, the recently released CLIMB Volume 2 report and the IAA Space Elevator report, scheduled to be released in the near future.
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Volume 2 / Number 1 of CLIMB, the Space Elevator Journal, is now available in printed format! This issue contains some of the best, peer-reviewed Papers relating to a space elevator that have been written since Volume 1 was released in December of 2011. It also includes, as Volume 1 did, several Additional Reading articles which we at ISEC think will be of great interest to the Space Elevator enthusiast.
Volume 1 of CLIMB was the “Yuri Artsutanov” issue and Volume 2 of CLIMB is the “Jerome Pearson” issue. We have honored these engineers in the first two issues of CLIMB as they were the original inventors of the Space Elevator concept that is referenced today in all serious work on this subject. I’d like to also note that Jerome Pearson will be the Keynote speaker at this year’s Space Elevator Conference (you are coming, aren’t you?) and will be at the conference all 3 days. It will be a great opportunity for you to purchase a copy of CLIMB at the Conference (unless you have already received it as part of your membership benefits) and have Jerome autograph it for you.
The plan is now to publish future issues of CLIMB each year in the June/July timeframe, this to be coordinated with the annual Space Elevator Conference. So, you can look forward to future issues of CLIMB each year.
To purchase Volume 2 of CLIMB, or any other ISEC publication, visit the ISEC Store or our publisher, Lulu.com.
Enjoy!
In the National Geographic children’s book Weird but True 4: 300 Outrageous Facts, one of the items mentioned is the Space Elevator. It shows the Mondolithic conceptual graphic of a Space Elevator and the fact mentioned is “In the future, you may be able to take a Space Elevator thousands of miles above the earth.”
I’m pretty sure this is a direct result of the NatGeo article on the Space Elevator that ISEC was able to contribute to a couple of years ago.
(Hat Tip – “Fitzer” via Peter Swan)
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Earlier this year, Markus Landgraf, a Mission Analyst at the European Space Agency, gave a TEDx talk about the Space Elevator. It was well done and worth the 19+ minutes of your time it will take you to listen to it.
He discusses the long CNT fibers made by a company in China and proposes using these to make an SE Cable. The problem is, is that they’re just not yet “pure” enough to do so. Nano-threads spun from CNTs are, so far, full of kinks and defects – the technology is just not yet there to make them like we need to have them be. But technology continues to attack the problem and I think it’s only a matter of time…
The Proceedings for last year’s Space Elevator Conference are now available at the ISEC Store. This was an excellent conference, with many strong presentations. If you attended the Conference, this CD will be mailed to you in the next several days. For those of you who may have missed the conference, the $20 purchase price for the CD is a bargain.
Also available on the ISEC Store are the Conference proceedings for the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 Space Elevator conferences as well as the Space Elevator Journal, CLIMB, the ISEC Reports and the ISEC Posters.
Just a reminder about ISEC’s unified social presence – and that is ISECdotORG!
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