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Space Elevator Conference '08 Along with the rest of the Space Elevator community (ranging now through Japan and Europe), we're now at this year's Space Elevator Conference on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington. The program is very interesting, the talks today were fun, and we're looking forward for some great discusssion tomorrow. Thanks go to Bryan Laubscher, Martin Lades, and Maurice Franklin for putting this conference together, and to Microsoft for helping out with the facilities. As usual, Ted at the Space Elevator Blog is blogging live from where the action is. Conan O'Brien to be first Space Elevator Passenger! Well, not really. BUT! Conan O'Brien (instead) got to interview Brian Turner of the Kansas City Space Pirates on his (Conan's) show. Welcome all Conan fans!
The Next Step "Aim high, or you are liable to shoot your toes off" - so goes the saying. In this spirit (and based on the technologies we've seen in the 2007 games) we've decided to up the ante this year and set the challenge target at 5 m/s over a 1-km climb, (10 times as high and more than twice as fast as last year's!) and place the entire $2,000,000 on the table. (details) This will be a first-of-its-kind structure - the image on the left shows the footprint of the pyramid (blue) overlaid on the site of last year's games (orange). We're thrilled to announce that machine tool manufacturer TRUMPF has stepped forward with a lucrative offer to support teams with its state-of-the-art laser equipment. Being the world leader in laser technology, TRUMPF took a natural interest in the power beaming games, and is providing both hardware and expertise to enable the 1-km climb. Stay tuned to this page for more updates on both the Power Beaming competition, the Strong Tether competition, and other Spaceward news, or subscribe to our newsletter for periodic updates. Happy New Year ! Success !!!
"I have seen a laser-powered climb, and I have seen a Carbon Nanotube Tether" (Ted Semon - SpaceElevatorBlog.com)The goal of Spaceward's Elevator:2010 project is to advance and showcase the technologies necessary to build the Space Elevator. With this in mind, we're thrilled to announce this year's official results:
These achievements are just the tip of the iceberg in what the underlying technologies can deliver. These are the first steps of a newborn giant. Watch what we can do next year!
A brief recap of the last 3 years:
Thanks! We'd like to help our crew of volunteers for making it possible: Jacob Seichrist, Vern McGeorge, Kathy Norman, David Posey, Dick Bronson, Michael Fischer, Bryan Laubscher, Ted Semon, Marc Boucher, Jack and Meg Hurt, Len Angle, Ron Morgan, Bryan Cooper, and Bitter Jester. Also thanks for the super-people of Utah, and in particular Dave Hansen, Curtis Koch, the fairgrounds crew, James Young, John and Sheri Sohl and Grandpa Earle. Special thanks go to Ken Davidian, without whom none of this would have been possible. - Ben, Susan, Meekk, and Brad.
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