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The Space Elevator Development Wiki

Mission

This wiki is intended to be a repository of information and a baseline for research of the space elevator. More about this WIki and the effort

Goals

1. Provide accurate information on the construction of a viable space elevator
2. Be the source of technical information during the initial stages of construction

New Work Completed

12/15/08 Dave Lang's deployment work is coming online:

(This is a bad deployment of what happens with no compensating control interventions by the satellites at either end of the ribbon. We have to have lots of failures in simulations to have success in real life!)

12/12/08 Brad Edward's presentation on manned travel up the elevator is uploaded.

10/23/08 GTOSS source code is now publicly available.

News archive.

Wiki Index

Baseline space elevator design: to be used as a common starting point for ongoing work will be updated continuously as new refinements are made

Concept Glossary of terms Integration Ribbon Climber Anchor Power Delivery Environment Deployment Cost Performance Applications

Major Space Elevator Design Challenges: this is the short list of the major technical challenges we are faced with these challenges are where people can make the greatest impact quickly

Energy in ribbon Optimal ribbon design Ribbon Splicing Experimental tests of ribbon in atomic oxygen Radiation protection for humans in transit Climber tracking Spooling of initial ribbon for launch Detailed modeling of ribbon degradation lifetime Ribbon attachment mechanism Full system design of climber Full budget analysis of operations.

Archive of detailed work: detailed calculations, images, designs, etc. will be stored for use and easy retrieval

Research Designs Links Artist Renderings Schematics Pictures

Simulation software: resource code for conducting simulations of elevator components and interactions current understanding of relationships will be incorporate

Scenarios Collaboration Spreadsheets Collada Blender Physics Models Finite Element Analysis K3D Other Software

Activities of Individuals: Individuals and what they are working on

This page summarizes the activities of various participants New users should feel free to add their name and information

Open Work Space:

Go to this page and you will find links to open workspace pages. These work spaces are open for anyone to use for space elevator development work Pages may have different templates and some will already have work in progress.

Meta

Archive of uploaded files that need categorization: Special:Imagelist

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Current Wiki To-do list