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Yes, I said that my next post was going to be on tether capacities and power systems, but that can wait – a new space-elevator themed book is available! Celestial Phoenix is written by new (I think) author A. P. Williams and is available on Kindle at Amazon. Be warned… Read more“Book Review – Celestial Phoenix”

TwistedMojo has a new episode out in the Lonely Astronaut series and it has a space elevator! If you’re not familiar with the series, an Astronaut is stranded on the moon and somehow survives several decades.  There are rescue attempts, Sexual Harassment training, hallucinations, etc. – but all funny (if… Read more“The Lonely Astronaut finally gets a Space Elevator”

ISEC has announced the 2015 ISEC SPACE ELEVATOR CONFERENCE!  This event will be held at Seattle’s Museum of Flight from August 21st through the 23rd, 2015. This will be the fourth year in a row that ISEC has held its conference at this venue.  It’s an incredible place to visit… Read more“2015 ISEC Space Elevator Conference announced!”

This edition of Weekend Walkabout takes us from a very cool Convention / Faire in Tokyo, Japan and then onto Central Europe (via the International Space Station) and finally winds up with the Kerbal Space Program… First up is another trip to Japan – and to the recently held Maker… Read more“Weekend Walkabout – Maker Faire, cosmic radiation and Kerbal…”

Over the years, I have come across several sites around the web which host questions and answers regarding the space elevator.  Many of these appear to be essentially fact-free and not worth the time visiting. I have found an exception, however, and that is the Space Exploration site of the… Read more“A new reference site…”

After a very long delay, the keynote speech given by Mr. Jerome Pearson, the American engineer who is credited with co-inventing the modern day concept of a space elevator, at the 2013 ISEC Space Elevator Conference, is finally available on Vimeo. Jerome’s presentation focused on Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the… Read more“Jerome Pearson’s Keynote speech from the 2013 ISEC Space Elevator Conference”

For the past several months, Wikistrat has been working on building forecasts for the private space industry.  One of their scenarios has been projecting how a space elevator might come about.  In the opening words from their report: In February 2014, Wikistrat ran an internal simulation led by Bruce Wald,… Read more“SPACELIFT”

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the world’s strongest policy in support of open research and open data. If strictly enforced, it would prevent Gates-funded researchers from publishing in well-known journals such as Nature and Science. On 20 November, the medical charity, based in Seattle, Washington, announced that… Read more“Gates Foundation announces world’s strongest policy on open access research”

Shoot the Moon, one of the two space elevator documentaries successfully funded via Kickstarter, has posted an update on its Kickstarter website page. This update also includes one of the cooler selfies that I’ve seen… I thought the storyboard sketch drawing from the project update was particularly cool and so… Read more“Shoot the Moon update”

Many years ago, I started a Translation Project for this site.  My idea was to find all of the translations for the English/American term “space elevator” and publish them here on this blog. When the ISEC website was initially set up, I “loaned” them this project as they needed content. … Read more“The Space Elevator Translation Project”