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ISEC April, 2012 eNewsletter released

Ted Semon — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:48:33 +0000

Hot off the press is the April, 2012 SEC eNewsletter. Stories covered include the Space Elevator Conferences’s move to the Museum of Flight, ISEC’s new schedule of yearly events, announcements regarding the Call for Papers for both the Space Elevator Conference and the second issue of CLIMB, ISEC’s move to its new website address and [...]

Space Elevator Conference moves to the Museum of Flight!

Ted Semon — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:09:14 +0000

ISEC is very proud to announce that this year’s Space Elevator Conference, the first organized by ISEC, will be held at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington. Conference dates are August 25-27. The official Press Announcement: For 2012, the Space Elevator Conference moves to The Museum of Flight! The International Space Elevator Consortium is proud to announce [...]

Electronic version of CLIMB now available

Ted Semon — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:34:16 +0000

An electronic, pdf version of CLIMB, the Space Elevator Journal, is now available. For those of you who didn’t want to pay for the print version, you can purchase an electronic version for only $1.99. Just visit the ISEC store and click on the PayPal button. Volume 2 of CLIMB is well underway and we’re on track [...]

6 years? OMG, 6 years!!

Ted Semon — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:10:11 +0000

Once again, all together now; Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Space Elevator Blog! Happy birthday to you! Really, six years. I remember when I started this blog. I was recovering from some fairly major surgery and was sitting at my computer, just poking around the ‘net, looking for something interesting to read. I [...]

2012 JSETEC is in the works

Ted Semon — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:13:45 +0000

This coming August, the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA) will be holding it’s fourth annual JSETEC (Japan Space Elevator Technical and Engineering Competition). Each year, the JSEA gets more and more ambitious with its competition and this year, they are aiming for a racecourse more than a kilometer high! Planning details are still sketchy, but I [...]

Mechanic Panic

Ted Semon — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:00:08 +0000

A new game, Mechanic Panic, has been issued for Apple platforms (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone) with the Space Elevator as a backdrop and, guess, what, the Space Elevator gets destroyed - how original! From the game description: “A catastrophic explosion has rocked the world’s first Space Elevator. Thankfully you’re on the job! As the fearless mechanic, [...]

EDDE gets funded!

Ted Semon — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:00:10 +0000

Most anyone in the space elevator community knows who Jerome Pearson is. He’s one of the people who independently re-invented the idea of Space Elevator, wrote a seminal paper on the subject and provided much of the rigorous engineering and mathematical underpinnings that such a structure would need. He attended the 2010 Space Elevator Conference (along [...]

ISEC.INFO -> ISEC.ORG

Ted Semon — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:00:38 +0000

When the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) was first formed, the only website available with the ISEC acronym was http://www.isec.info. Much later on, http://www.isec.org became available and we snatched it up. You can visit either URL and see the ISEC website, but our internal/external email addresses have always been isec.info, not isec.org. This has been [...]

Some truly sad news…

Ted Semon — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:00:32 +0000

I have just found out that Gaylen Hinton, the first person to be awarded an “Honorable Mention” in the Artsutanov Prize competition and a contributor to Volume 1 of CLIMB, has recently passed away after a long bout with cancer. Gaylen’s online Obituary can be found here. It’s fascinating reading and just goes to show [...]

Michael Laine to appear on The Space Show

Ted Semon — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:20:39 +0000

On Tuesday, March 20th, Michael Laine (of LiftPort fame) will appear on Dr. David Livingston’s The Space Show. From the Who’s On The Space Show This Week email: We welcome back MICHAEL LAINE of Liftport to discuss his Lunar Space Elevator Concept. Visit his website for more information. The show will be aired at 7-8:30 PM [...]