Author : Peter A. Swan
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 2019-05-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780991337033
This study report summarizes the assessment of the space elevator as of the summer of 2018. The encouraging aspect is that the space elevator community has been reinvigorated and is pulling together experiments and test programs to push the technology along the path to readiness. Several of these breakthroughs are the ones we were searching for after completion of the first IAA study. We see the way forward!
Author : Peter Swan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 2019-09-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 035993496X
In the last year, the International Space Elevator Consortium assessed that basic technological needs can be met with current capabilities: and, each segment of the Space Elevator Transportation System is ready for engineering validation. Because of the availability of a new material as a potential Space Elevator tether, the community strongly believes that a Space Elevator will be initiated in the near term. Included in the book is a series of appendices that are tremendous references to the status of the space elevator today. Included are a lexicon of space elevator terms, over 750 references in the bibliography, short descriptions of eight ISEC year-long studies and two IAA 4-year studies on space elevators, as well as a summary of over 20 Architectural Notes covering the development of space elevator technologies.
Author : Peter Swan
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2021-04-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781678087104
This 18-month study has produced some remarkable results during a time of transition inside the space arena. As the dreams of many describe customer needs and lead to more assets in space (at GEO, the Moon and Mars), the realization grows that a robust permanent transportation infrastructure is desperately needed. Essentially, we (ISEC) must insert the "positive environmental impact" aspect of spaceflight into a new vision. Everyone needs to understand the potential benefits of liftoffs accomplished by electricity. Our new vision is: Space Elevators are the Green Road to Space - they enable humanity's most important missions by moving massive tonnage to GEO and beyond. They accomplish this safely, routinely, inexpensively, daily and they are environmentally neutral. This study shows how the Space Elevator can actually enhance the Earth's environment and accomplishes much to fulfill the dreams of many. The compatible and complementary combination of future rockets and Space Elevators leads to the implementation of the Dual Space Access Architecture which enables: Rockets to open up the Moon and Mars with Space Elevators to supply and grow the colonies. In addition, Space Elevators will enable Green Missions such as, Space Solar Power and L-1 Sun Shades.
Author : David Raitt
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1365806715
Under the editorship of David Raitt, this timely book brings together for the first time the record of people, places, developments and activities, in fiction and in fact, of the space elevator - a 100,000 km long, meter wide, ribbon reaching up from the Earth and into space along which robotic climbers that will travel to bring payloads into orbit at a fraction of the price of rocket launches. The chapters in the book cover the early pioneers who dreamt up the concept initially some 120 years ago; the work of modern day scientists and engineers who have developed the concept into doable plans; how the concept has been portrayed in novels, films and art; the conferences at which interested people could present and discuss their work and ideas; the global community that has grown up around space elevators and the competition challenges that have been held; and what the future may hold.
Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2005-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416505490
A high school senior wins a space suit in a soap jingle contest, takes a last walk wearing "Oscar" before cashing him in for college tuition, and suddenly finds himself on a space odyssey.
Author : Bradley C. Edwards
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN :
The authors take the reader through the history of the concept, technical design and economic practicalities of building an elevator to space, and, ultimately, the implications of what such a low cost transportation system would mean to society. Based on three years of NASA-funded studies and written for the technically literate layperson, Edwards and Westling discuss the recent technological advances that now make the space elevator feasible. They conclude by addressing the effects that the space elevator could have on mankind's future from communications and energy to colonizing space.
Author : Mack R. Herring
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN :
Author : Larry Senn
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1523084626
Urging us to cultivate mental attitudes like curiosity and gratitude that will keep us on the higher floors, this practical book explains how to quiet the mind and nurture positive thoughts without succumbing to Pollyannaish denial. --
Author : Clare Lise Kelly
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0971560714
An illustrated reference guide to the history of modern architecture in Montgomery County, Maryland, from 1930 to 1979, with an inventory of key buildings and communities, and biographical sketches of practitioners including architects, landscape architects, planners and developers.
Author : Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0160897432
Through essays on topics including survival in extreme environments and the multicultural dimensions of exploration, readers will gain an understanding of the psychological challenges that have faced the space program since its earliest days. An engaging read for those interested in space, history, and psychology alike, this is a highly relevant read as we stand poised on the edge of a new era of spaceflight. Each essay also explicitly addresses the history of the psychology of space exploration.
