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An L 2 elevator would mirror this arrangement on the Lunar far side, and cargo dropped from its end would be flung outward into the solar system. A lunar space elevator or lunar spacelift is a proposed transportation system for moving a mechanical climbing vehicle up and down a ribbon-shaped tethered cable that is set between the surface of the ...
Jerome Pearson (19 April 1938 – 27 Jan 2021) [1] was an American engineer and space scientist best known for his work on space elevators, including a lunar space elevator. He was president of STAR, Inc., and has developed aircraft and spacecraft technology for the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA. He held several patents and was the ...
A space elevator, also referred to as a space bridge, star ladder, and orbital lift, is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system, [1] often depicted in science fiction. The main component would be a cable (also called a tether ) anchored to the surface and extending into space.
The human landing system will transport astronauts to the surface of the moon and back to the lunar space station as part of the space agency's return to the moon for "science, exploration, and ...
At the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), LiftPort CTO Marshall Eubanks presented a paper on the Lunar Elevator co-authored by Michael Laine. [9] In August 2012, LiftPort announced the launch of KickStarter funding for their Lunar space elevator. This KickStarter fund can be found at Space Elevator Kickstarter ...
After being selected for the Lunar Architecture Capability Study (LunA-10), Northrop Grumman will now work towards building a prototype of a fully operational lunar rail system.
In the 1970s, Jerome Pearson independently conceived the idea of a space elevator, sometimes referred to as a synchronous tether, [5] and, in particular, analyzed a lunar elevator that can go through the L1 and L2 points, and this was found to be possible with materials then existing.
“A space elevator becomes a bridge to the entire solar system,” says Stephen Cohen, who teaches physics at Vanier College in Montreal and has conducted extensive research on the mechanics of ...