Monday, January 20, 2014

Space Elevator Update

Recently I found a nice round-up of the state of building a tower into orbit, the only sane way to get stuff up there. Here are a few highlights:
  • a space elevator could be built on the Moon using existing materials
  • LiftPort has been resurrected and is working on this right now
  • carbon nanotubes could be the "diamond thread" that A C Clarke described in his novels
  • International Academy of Astronautics says that a space elevator "seems feasible"