My thoughts on Space Elevators
- Simulating a space elevator break.
- Some annoying problems that need to be tackled.
- Why the Space Elevator's Center of Mass is not at Geosynchronous altitude
- Climbers letting go of the elevator
- Off-Equator Space Elevators
Conferences
Space Exploration 2005, Albuquerque, NM, April 3-6 2005
- My notes from the conference
- I presented a paper on what happens if the space elevator breaks. You can download a preliminary version here, or get my slides from the conference (ppt) (sxi - OpenOffice) (pdf - no animations). The pictures I took are here.
Third Annual Space Elevator Conference, Washington, DC, June 28-30 2004
- My notes from the Conference, and the corresponding Slashdot story.
- Non-Equatorial Space Elevators, studying the basic equations in the case of uniform-stress tethers, presented at the third space elevator conference. My paper. My talk.
- Exponential Tethers for Accelerated Space Elevator Deployment. How you can build up a space elevator faster if you use exponentially tapered tethers and spooling buildup methods. This was presented at the third space elevator conference. My paper. My talk.
- The ISR website with all the presentations
Second Annual Space Elevator Conference, Santa-Fe, NM, September 12-15 2003
- My notes from the Conference
- My slides on the Linear Dynamics of the Space Elevator in the Absence of Climbers
- The ISR website with all the presentations
Papers
Many of the space elevator papers can be found online:
Related links
- The ISR Space Elevator website for Dr Bradley Edwards' efforts
- The Liftport website for Michael Laine's efforts, it has a lively forum.
- The Yahoo Groups space-elevator mailing list.
- The Space Elevator webpage maintained by Marc Boucher
- An interesting page on the physics of the Space Elevator.
- Another webpage that monitors the Space Elevator's progess.
- The Gizmonics Space Elevator page. Lots of cool ideas are being developed here, with great attention to the details.
- Andy Price's Space Elevator blog.
- A page by Jim Cline that got me thinking about reel-to-reel buildup, and a local mirror of it.
- The Space Elevator Institute, run by Bruce Mackenzie.
- Roger G. Gilbertson has found the original Space Elevator paper by Artsutanov and had it translated into english.