{"id":1071,"date":"2008-08-14T14:17:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T19:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2008-08-14T14:17:44","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T19:17:44","slug":"design-and-deployment-of-a-space-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Design and Deployment of a Space Elevator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"265\" src=\"\/media\/ScienceDirectLogo.jpg\" height=\"45\" style=\"width: 265px; height: 45px\" \/>I received an email from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/\">ScienceDirect<\/a> listing their &#8220;<em>TOP 25 Hottest Articles<\/em>&#8220;, a list of the 25 most downloaded articles from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iafastro.com\/?id=457\">Acta Astronautica<\/a>.\u00a0 Number 4 on the list is titled &#8220;<em>Design and Deployment of a Space Elevator<\/em>&#8220;,\u00a0a November, 2000 article from Dr. Brad Edwards.\u00a0 The abstract of the article reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The space elevator was first proposed in the 1960s as a method of getting into space. The initial studies of a space elevator outlined the basic concept of a cable strung between Earth and space but concluded that no material available at the time had the required properties to feasibly construct such a cable. With the discovery of carbon nanotubes in 1991 it is now possible to realistically discuss the construction of a space elevator. Although currently produced only in small quantities, carbon nanotubes appear to have the strength-to-mass ratio required for this endeavor. However, fabrication of the cable required is only one of the challenges in construction of a space elevator. Powering the climbers, surviving micrometeor impacts, lightning strikes and low-Earth\u2013orbit debris collisions are some of the problems that are now as important to consider as the production of the carbon nanotube cable. We consider various aspects of a space elevator and find each of the problems that this endeavor will encounter can be solved with current or near-future technology.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously the thinking about how the &#8216;Edwards-Westling model&#8217; of the Space Elevator has evolved over the past several years, but it&#8217;s encouraging to see how even this relatively older article is still of such interest to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iafastro.com\/?id=457\">Acta Astronautica<\/a> readership.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/media\/25MostDownloadedArticles.pdf\">here<\/a> to see the entire list (list in pdf format &#8211; links intact so you can preview all of the article abstracts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email from ScienceDirect listing their &#8220;TOP 25 Hottest Articles&#8220;, a list of the 25 most downloaded articles from Acta Astronautica.\u00a0 Number 4 on the list is titled &#8220;Design and Deployment of a Space Elevator&#8220;,\u00a0a November, 2000 article from Dr. Brad Edwards.\u00a0 The abstract of the article reads: &#8220;The space elevator was first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}