Mountain View, CA – The Spaceward Foundation in collaboration with NASA today announced a significant expansion of the Power Beaming and Tether Challenges. These two events are collectively known as ...
Researchers gathered at the Space Elevator Conference on Thursday said that an elevator could make transportation to space so much more inexpensive than it is now, that companies could build large ...
As for what's affordable... that's all in the eye of the beholder. The world has spent trillions of dollars on space launches already, with very little to show for it mass-wise. A low-g mass driver ...
Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via ...
LiftPort Group, the space elevator companies, today announced the release of “LiftPort — The Space Elevator: Opening Space to Everyone,” a new book on the LiftPort Space Elevator, a revolutionary new ...
A space elevator could make it much cheaper and faster to get goods to other planets, like Mars. The Obayashi Corporation based in Japan announced in 2012 plans to begin building one by next year. Not ...