llbbl
05-11-2005, 11:00 AM
Work is already underway in the production of a space elevator.
The LiftPort company says it will open a plant this summer in Millville, New Jersey, to start producing nanotube fibers, which are 60-times stronger than steel.
The company plans to create an eight-inch wide ribbon that would stretch from an ocean platform 62-thousand miles into space.
http://cbsnewyork.com/water/watercooler_story_116173449.html
http://www.liftport.com/
Make way for the ultimate high-rise project: the space elevator. Long viewed as science fiction "imagineering", researchers are gathering momentum in their pursuit to propel this uplifting concept into actuality.
Still, the mental picture needed to grasp the elevator to space idea…well, you can't be weak of mind.
Forget the roar of rocketry and those bone jarring liftoffs, the elevator would be a smooth 62,000-mile (100,000-kilometer) ride up a long cable. Payloads can shimmy up the Earth-to-space cable, experiencing no large launch forces, slowly climbing from one atmosphere to a vacuum.
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_elevator_020327-1.html
Here is a book you can buy that does an indepth analysis of the feasiblity of building such a elevator. I have been reading it and enjoy it so far. I think the authors did a good job covering all the different concerns that would go into building such a thing.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0974651710/
The LiftPort company says it will open a plant this summer in Millville, New Jersey, to start producing nanotube fibers, which are 60-times stronger than steel.
The company plans to create an eight-inch wide ribbon that would stretch from an ocean platform 62-thousand miles into space.
http://cbsnewyork.com/water/watercooler_story_116173449.html
http://www.liftport.com/
Make way for the ultimate high-rise project: the space elevator. Long viewed as science fiction "imagineering", researchers are gathering momentum in their pursuit to propel this uplifting concept into actuality.
Still, the mental picture needed to grasp the elevator to space idea…well, you can't be weak of mind.
Forget the roar of rocketry and those bone jarring liftoffs, the elevator would be a smooth 62,000-mile (100,000-kilometer) ride up a long cable. Payloads can shimmy up the Earth-to-space cable, experiencing no large launch forces, slowly climbing from one atmosphere to a vacuum.
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_elevator_020327-1.html
Here is a book you can buy that does an indepth analysis of the feasiblity of building such a elevator. I have been reading it and enjoy it so far. I think the authors did a good job covering all the different concerns that would go into building such a thing.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0974651710/