Today marks nine full years that I’ve been hosting and authoring the Space Elevator Blog and I’m going to call it quits, at least for the time being. I have several other projects on my pla...
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 s...
The folks creating Shoot the Moon – a story about Liftport‘s effort to build a space elevator – have posted another update for their Kickstarter funded project. Hey, everyone! Since our las...
Welcome to this edition of Weekend Walkabout. In this post, we visit India Thailand to see a ‘possible competitor’ to a space elevator, then journey to Japan to see the latest with our favo...
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 t...
Many of you remember, I’m sure, a cartoon on the most-excellent XKCD website entitled Payloads. This cartoon compared and contrasted, in increments of “horses” (which I calculate to repre...
This Weekend Walkabout continues to catch up on some things I didn’t blog about while I was taking my holiday break. We start off by hypothetically shooting things into the sun, then learn abou...
Making the rounds over the past several days has been the BBC Future article Should we give up on the dream of space elevators? The author, Nic Fleming, quotes both Elon Musk (of Tesla, SpaceX , ...
The current issue, February 2015, of the ISEC eNewsletter is now available – you can access it here. You can read about the $25,000 Grand Challenges competition in it as well as the February IS...
Just a reminder that this is the last week for the 2015 ISEC membership drive! ISEC is holding its second annual Membership drive. A one-year Professional level membership, new or renewal, can be...