{"id":748,"date":"2007-10-08T01:16:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T06:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=748"},"modified":"2007-10-08T01:18:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T06:18:23","slug":"associates-and-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"Associates and competitors…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“If the Space Elevator is our best option [for an alternative way to space], it’s going to be a long, long road” – so says Dr. David Livingston in this very interesting interview<\/a>\u00a0from July of 2006 with Dr. Jordin Kare, the same Dr. Kare who is part of LaserMotive<\/a>, one of the entrants into this year’s Space Elevator Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this interview, Dr. Kare’s\u00a0describes using Laser propulsion\u00a0for getting payloads into orbit\u00a0differently than using lasers to power a Space Elevator.\u00a0 Dr. Kare\u00a0touts the capabilities of “Laser Launch”, using a\u00a0ground-based laser to power a spacecraft\u00a0by heating up\u00a0a propellant it carries\u00a0rather than the Space Elevator concept whereby a ground-based laser, again aimed at the space craft (the climber) would power a photovoltaic array, generating electricity for the Climber to use.<\/p>\n

In this interview, Dr. Livingston asks Dr. Kare for his\u00a0opinion of the Space Elevator.\u00a0 Dr. Kare replies that he considers people working on the Space Elevator to be “associates and competitors”…<\/p>\n

Competitors indeed.\u00a0 Dr. Kare also stated in the interview that the highest any\u00a0device had been sent using the “Laser Launch” approach was a couple of hundred feet.\u00a0 So, perhaps he and the LaserMotive team will beat this in the competition this year.\u00a0 At the Games, I’ll be sure to seek out Dr. Kare and ask him his opinion of the Space Elevator now and to see what the status of “Laser Launch” is at this time…<\/p>\n

In the show notes, Dr. Livingston also states: “Certainly [Laser Launch] can be brought on line faster and cheaper than the space elevator.”\u00a0 We shall see…<\/p>\n

While poking around the ‘net, I came across this article<\/a>, describing using the concept of Laser Launch to dispose of nuclear wastes, a potential use of the Space Elevator, too…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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