November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
... easy to satisfy, at least in comparison to what we are used to on Earth. In addition, a space elevator would be feasible at least from the material mechanical strength point of view. A space elevator cable can lift its own weight in less than a day...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... the Kansas City team in NASA’s Power Beaming challenge. He is a founding member and director of ISEC, an organization furthering space elevator related research, including the recent collaboration with the Lake Matthew Team on the Mars Lift and...
18 July 2017
Why the space programme needs civil engineers
... also work with structural engineers, astrophysicists and scientists to design space stations, in much the same way as they would work on an oil rig on Earth. Space elevators Proposed space elevators are long cables, fixed on Earth near the equator...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... a Moon-to-Earth space elevator system. Artist s concept of a terraformed Mars. Space debris and cosmic defence We now have the ‘space smarts’ to accomplish amazing new things in space One of the immediate challenges of Space Age 2.0 is to create...
May 2025
A time zone for the Moon
... the Moon and its satellites at Lagrange points L1 and L2 are expected to be symmetrically connected to the Moon by space elevators, providing two extremely interesting foci for mass colonisation of the lunar environment. In practice, it will be more...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
...-scale space exploration for humanity is the non-rocket method. You probably know the idea of a space elevator and ...Planetary Vehicle (GPV) - for the exploration of near-Earth space. The theoretical foundation and basic principles of GPV operation are...
