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The 2015 International Astronautical Congress<\/a> will be held next October in Israel and it has a space elevator track, D4.3.:<\/p>\n D4.3. Technology Assessment and Space Elevators Components<\/strong><\/p>\n The recently completed IAA study, “Space Elevators – Feasibility and Next Steps<\/strong><\/a>” looked at engineering, operational, and funding steps towards an operational capability. This session will evaluate the current and near-term potential of the necessary technologies. They will be evaluated with respect to the NASA TRL\u2019s and identify risks associated. In addition, the session can accept the analysis of other issues leveraging this remarkable transportation capability of routine, inexpensive and safe access to our solar system.<\/p>\n Co-Chair Rapporteur At this year’s (2014) IAC Conference in Montreal<\/a>, there was also a space elevator track, with several people who have long been involved in the space elevator effort attending and presenting.\u00a0 This gives me a good excuse to post a picture sent to me by one of the attendees at that conference, Stephen Cohen.\u00a0 Stephen presented a paper on Tether Dynamics\/Oscillations at a space elevator conference several years ago and has stayed involved in the effort since then.\u00a0 He is also the Technical Editor for Volume 3 of CLIMB, the Space Elevator Journal.<\/p>\n (Click on the picture thumbnail to see a full size version)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2015 International Astronautical Congress will be held next October in Israel and it has a space elevator track, D4.3.: D4.3. Technology Assessment and Space Elevators Components The recently completed IAA study, “Space Elevators – Feasibility and Next Steps” looked at engineering, operational, and funding steps towards an operational capability. This session will evaluate the […]<\/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-1950","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\/1950","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=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPeter Swan
\nSouthWest Analytic Network \u2014 United States
\nRobert E Penny
\nCholla Space Systems \u2014 United States<\/p>\n
\nAkira Tsuchida
\nEarth-Track Corporation \u2014 Japan<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/media\/IAC2014.png\")
<\/a>Left to right are Professors Arun Misra<\/a>, Stephen Cohen<\/a> and Hironori Fujii<\/a>, all experts in tether dynamics.\u00a0 Incidentally, Stephen is the author of the Engineer’s Pulse<\/a>.\u00a0 If you check out the latest post<\/a> in his blog, you will see a Halloween costume that only a Physics geek would dream up \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n