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Wired
April 2003
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Starlight Express Nanotech's promise is out of this world. Just ask Brad Edwards, who's planning to build a carbon-nanotube elevator that goes 62,000 miles straight up.   |
Inc.
June 2004
Jim Melloan |
Going Up? The private space industry is expected to grow by $7.7 billion in 2004. But many of the fledgling ventures seem extremely risky. Like, say, the company that wants to build an elevator to the stars. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2012
Gregory L. Matloff |
Deflecting Asteroids A solar sail could use light to nudge an earthbound rock into an orbit we could live with |
| AskMen.com |
The Space Elevator Tryouts Rocketing into space? Some think an elevator might be the way to go. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
Mason Peck |
Exploring Space with Chip-sized Satellites The future of space exploration will include swarms of tiny spacecraft. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2005
Aldrin & Noland |
Roadmap To Mars So far, NASA's plan to reach the red planet has been short on detail. Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin unveils his own step-by-step proposal for mankind's next giant leap. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2010
Sigrid Close |
Shooting Stars Can Shoot Down Satellites We don't know enough about meteoroids |
Entrepreneur
June 2007
Kristin Ohlson |
Space Odyssey The hope of easy access to space sparks sky-high innovation. |
Geotimes
July 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Stone |
Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Logan Ward |
10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: Deep Space Plasma Thruster Brilliant idea: a plasma engine powered by nitrogen, with 10 times the efficiency of chemical rockets. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Saswato R. Das |
Final Thoughts from Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) The last interview with the late Sir Arthur in a Sri Lanka hospital in January found the famed author still entranced with terraforming planets, space elevators, and the search for extraterrestrials |
Fast Company
Chris Gayomali |
Google X Confirms The Rumors: It Really Did Try To Design A Space Elevator Rich DeVaul, head of Google X's Rapid Evaluation team, has confirmed for the first time ever that Google's super hush-hush R&D lab actually tried to design one. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Saswato Das |
Audio Transcript: Interview with Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke, famed science-fiction writer of 2001: A Space Odyssey, spent a lifetime imagining and writing about technology. |
| AskMen.com |
NASA Studying The Sun The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star. |
Wired
April 2001
Alex Markels |
The Next Wave Ships from Norway, rockets from Russia, techspertise from Seattle. Together, they slingshot satellites off a floating platform on the equator - and set the stage for a new kind of company, built on international brainpower... |
Technology Research News
November 3, 2004 |
Nanotubes Lengthen to Centimeters Researchers have found a way to grow very long carbon nanotubes. One long-range possibility is using ultralong carbon nanotubes fibers to make an elevator to low Earth orbit. |
PC Magazine
April 5, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Going Up? Arthur C. Clarke's 1978 novel Fountains of Paradise proposed that an elevator to space would be feasible. Now, LiftPort Group is aiming to make the dream a reality. |
The Motley Fool
February 3, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Ride the Space Elevator to Riches! Harris & Harris and other nanotech specialists could ride their own space elevator in the next couple of years. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Saswato R. Das |
Remembering Sputnik: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Although he is more revered for his role as an author, Clarke has well deserved the title of futurist for his groundbreaking thinking on space exploration. Here's an interview. |
Wired
August 2001 |
Verge An electrodynamic tether may have potential as a low-cost means of propelling spacecraft within Earth's orbit... |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Willie D. Jones |
How to Build a Mile-High Skyscraper When cities can't build out, they build up. Here's how modern technology makes the building of a mile-high skyscraper possible. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Carl Hoffman |
China's Space Threat: How Missiles Could Target U.S. Satellites The Chinese have successfully destroyed an old weather satellite in space, prompting other countries to respond. |
Scientific American
September 2008
David Appell |
The Sun Will Eventually Engulf Earth--Maybe Researchers debate whether Earth will be swallowed by the sun as it expands into a red giant billions of years from now |
Wired
April 24, 2007
Sean Cooper |
Houston, We Have a Trash Problem Outer space is becoming a garbage heap. Here are 6 ideas to clean up space. |
PC Magazine
March 15, 2006 |
Bits & Bites v25n6 LiftPort Group has stood a space elevator cable one mile into the air, held aloft by a weather balloon, and robots have successfully climbed up and down. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
Tom Jones |
Launching NASA on a Path to Nowhere: Analysis The president released his FY 2011 budget Monday, and his policy for NASA's human spaceflight program sets the nation on a course to second-class status in space. |
National Defense
July 2014
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
New Chinese Threats to U.S. Space Systems Worry Officials If China continues to make strides and develops weapons that reach farther, it could one day threaten key satellites in geosynchronous orbit. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Collision Course: The Need for Better Space Junk Regulations Space is getting crowded, and the problem urgently needs attention from all spacefaring nations, lest we find ourselves earthbound under a shroud of orbiting trash. |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Top Floor: Space NASA opens space elevator competition to private companies. But you needn't wait for investing opportunities. Carbon nanotubes are expected to play a major role here, and that's good news for small pure-play nano firms, such as Harris & Harris and Arrowhead Research. |
Reason
October 2005
Jeff Taylor |
DIY Sci-Fi While governments have long been at the forefront of space exploration, cheap computing power has brought complex design and engineering tasks within reach of small teams of problem solvers. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2007
Erik Sofge |
Tethers Offer Cheap, Efficient Earth-Space Transit (If They Work) The race to deliver a space payload back to earth without rockets has suffered yet another setback as a tethered capsule experiment performed by the European and Russian space agencies failed this past September. |
National Defense
December 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Murky Picture of What's Happening in Space Worries Air Force Officials There is a deterrent value to space situational awareness that doesn't grab the attention it should. |
National Defense
July 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Taking Out the Trash: What Can Be Done About Space Debris? What goes up doesn't necessarily come down when it comes to manmade objects orbiting the planet. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2009
Courtney E. Howard |
LaserMotive Wins NASA's Centennial Challenges Program with Wireless Energy Beaming Technology LaserMotive engineers enabled a robotic device to climb a vertical cable via wireless power transmission, technology that could help power a "space elevator" in the future |
Wired
December 2004
James Cameron |
The Drive to Discover From deep sea exploration to trips into outer space, discovery is worth funding. |
Scientific American
January 2009
Mark Fischetti |
How Do Elevators Work? A look inside the complex machine that moves people up and down floors |
U.S. CPSC
June 9, 2006 |
Extreme Engineering Recalls Wall Climbing Cable Assemblies Due to Fall Hazard A fracture in the cable eye, or the round metal tube that holds the cable, could reduce the overall strength of the cable assembly. A failed cable assembly would result in a free-fall hazard for the climber. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2004
Paul Eisenstein |
World's Fastest Elevator Designing the fastest elevator for the Taipei 101 building was challenging. |
Outside
September 2005 |
The Wild File Outdoor questions are answered: How long a tick can live without a host... Greatest height from which a human has fallen and survived... Do whales yawn?... |
Popular Mechanics
June 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
17 Steps to the Moon and Back: Anatomy of a Moonshot Here are the critical events that had to go right with the Apollo 11 launch, and what would have happened had they gone wrong. |
Fast Company
Christina Farr |
SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Is "Ready to Fire Again" The Falcon 9 rocket carried a payload of 11 satellites to orbit last month and returned to Earth with a vertical landing Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
Jennifer Bogo |
X Prize CEO Thinks Obama's 2010 NASA Budget Good for Space The new approach NASA has taken has laid the foundation for the Google, Cisco and Apple computers of space to be born. And, ultimately, lays the foundation for the rest of us to have a chance to get to go to space. |
IndustryWeek
September 14, 2011 |
Cost in Space NASA is encouraging U.S. companies to create vessels capable of transporting cargo on the 'final frontier.' |
Outside
December 2005
Michael Behar |
Blast Off on a Budget David Gump is blazing a trail to the solar system with a low-cost plan to launch manned expeditions to the moon and Mars. |
IndustryWeek
July 11, 2012 |
Pushing the Right Buttons Innovation and customer service fuel Otis Elevator's global growth. |
Popular Mechanics
February 14, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Satellite Shot Offers Navy Key Space Defense Trial: How It Works The Pentagon today announced that a Navy warship has been tasked with shooting down a failing United States spy satellite that, if left alone, was expected to hit Earth within weeks. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Closing in on Mars A camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft returned its first four images to Earth, and astronomers say they were "thrilled" with the results. |
Fast Company
June 2006
Tracy Staedter |
Lifts in Loops To solve the high-rise property owner's dilemma, Hitachi engineers offer an elevator that runs in circles -- this time, with doors. |
