{"id":1096,"date":"2008-10-10T19:35:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T00:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2008-10-10T19:35:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T00:35:41","slug":"iac2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"IAC2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 59th International Astronautical Congress<\/a> was recently held (Sep 29 – Oct 3) in Glasgow, Scotland.\u00a0 I have been to Glasgow and other points in Scotland – it is a beautiful place – and would have loved to attended this congress.\u00a0 But I’m already spending too much money and time on this ‘hobby’ and have to pick my spots… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

However our own Dr. Peter Swan (co-author of Space Elevator Systems Architecture<\/a>) attended (and presented)\u00a0and has emailed out these notes from the Congress:<\/p>\n

The sessions at the International Astronautical Federation Congress in Glasgow were very successful and exciting with its presentations.\u00a0 The one I really enjoyed was the reporting on the success \/ problems of the YES2 tethered Space Mail flight.\u00a0 Real space tethers with modest success is always a delight to see in our industry. (Note – I blogged about this here<\/a>).\u00a0 In addition, we had the 6th annual Space Elevator Luncheon.<\/em><\/p>\n

The papers that were presented were:<\/em><\/p>\n

Session I<\/em><\/p>\n