Our mission is to provide grassroots support for the development and deployment of the first Space Elevator.

Seeking New Leader For Chapter

For the past couple years the chapter has been pretty much ignored. I
have spent my time with Family, Job, and The NSS Space Elevator Team.
To breathe life back into the chapter I am in encouraging a new leader
to step forward and take over the chapter.

This chapter is on the verge of being removed from NSS's List, if some
activity is not drummed up in the near future the chapter will cease to
exist

Anyone interested please contact me.


Cheers,
Bert Murray
hcm1955@gmail.com

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Ribbons, Sheets and the Nanofuture

Jamais Cascio
August 19, 2005 1:04 PM

rolloutthenano.jpgThis is likely the biggest technological breakthrough of the year, arguably even of the decade.

A team of researcher from the University of Texas, Dallas, and Australia's CSIRO has come up with a way to make strong, stable macroscale sheets and ribbons of multiwall nanotubes at a rate of seven meters per minute. These ribbons and sheets, moreover, already display -- without optimization of the process -- important electronic and physical properties, making them suitable for use in an enormous variety of settings, including artificial muscles, transparent antennas, video displays and solar cells -- and many, many more. The breakthrough was announced in the latest edition of Science. As usual, the article itself is behind a subscriber-only wall, but the abstract and supplementary information are available with a free site registration. The press release from UTD (carried by Eurekalert) provides abundant information, however; an article in the UK Guardian gives additional detail.

Space elevators needed for space solar power?

It might sound like the piling of one unlikely science fiction idea on top of another - but the small band of enthusiasts who believe machines called space elevators could one day become a reality say their technology could one day save the planet.

The reason? They say a space elevator - which would theoretically ride between Earth and geostationary orbit on a 1-metre-wide ultratough ribbon - is the only affordable way to place the vast solar arrays of a space-based solar power (SBSP) system in Earth orbit.

Many space scientists agree that cleanly supplying the Earth's energy needs by placing vast solar arrays in space - and beaming down the energy they collect in the form of microwaves for conversion to electricity - is eminently possible with today's technology (though it may not - as yet - be highly efficient).

Smaller Companies Win NASA's Space Race

Washington Post
24 December 08



By Dana Hedgpeth

NASA yesterday gave two companies the job of resupplying the International Space Station after the space shuttle retires, picking Orbital Sciences of Dulles and SpaceX of Hawthorne, Calif., for a $3.5 billion contract.

NASA says the deal is a milestone for the agency as part of its effort to encourage companies to get more involved in space transport and it was seen as a major win for two relatively small firms that beat out the giants of the space industry: Lockheed Martin of Bethesda and Boeing of Chicago.

After the shuttle fleet retires in 2010, NASA will depend on Russian rockets to get astronauts to and from the orbiting station until a new American spacecraft can be built. Orbital and SpaceX will split unmanned cargo duties during that time.

Key Step to Space-Based Solar Power Achieved:

From
http://www.nss.org/news/releases/pr20080909.html

Contact: Mr. John C. Mankins (jmankins@managedenergytech.com)

During the week of May 5-9, 2008, a key step on the path to Space-Based Solar Power was achieved: a "first-of-a-kind" long-range demonstration of solar-powered wireless power transmission using a solid-state phased array transmitter located on the U.S. island of Maui (on Haleakala) and receivers located on the island of Hawai'i (Mauna Loa) and airborne. The demonstration, achieved by Managed Energy Technologies LLC of the U.S. and sponsored by Discovery Communications, Inc., involved the transmission of RF energy over a distance of up to 148 kilometers (about 90 miles): almost 100-times further than a major 1970s power transmission performed by NASA in the Mojave Desert in California. The 2008 project (which lasted only 5 months and cost less than $1M) proved that real progress toward Space Solar Power can be made quickly, affordably and internationally, including key participants from the U.S. and Japan.

Raising Money For The Space Elevator

I am with the newly established JPL Space Foundation. http://www.jplspacefoundation.org . The foundation will basiclly support research into finding an affordable, reliable and safe access to space. We believe the Space Elevator has the best chance of meeting these three requirments. I have talked with many people about a way to raise money to support the Space Elevator. I just recently found a way that we all can do something to raise money. There is a new search engine called Good Search which is powered by Yahoo that will contribute one cent to a charity of your choice every time you use Good Search to look up anything on the web. All you need do is go to: http://www.jplspacefoundation.org and click the Good Search Banner and download the Good Search search bar when you get to their site. Choose JPL Space Foundation as your Charity, if it doesn’t show up automaticlly and then surf the web as usual using Good Search. All proceeds will be used to support research for the Space Elevator and the conferences each year.

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