Japan Space Elevator Association, Space elevator

First test of the JSEA Balloon-Tether competition track is successful

Original at The Space Elevator external link • Wed, Mar 18

By Ted Semon Shuichi Ohno, Chairman of the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA) sent me an email about their first test of the Balloon-Tether system that they will be using in their upcoming Space Elevator competition (JSETEC): Last Monday, our first balloon-tether system experiment took pl...

Japan Space Elevator Assocation to host its own Space Elevator Games

Original at The Space Elevator external link • Sat, Mar 14

By Ted Semon I received this word from Shuichi Ohno, Chairman of the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA): We at JSEA have institutionalized from private organization to Aggregate Corporation in this month, and now, we are planning to hold a new type of space elevator climber competition in Jap...

The Future is Coming: Space elevator

Original at network.nationalpost.com external link • Tue, Sep 23 • 3 related articles

By Brad Frenette Of the many challenges, one of largest is finding a cable that can support the carriage, which must be "180 times stronger than steel", according to Yoshio Aoki, director of the Japan Space Elevator Association. ...

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Space Elevator To Become True Thanks To Japanese Scientists

Original at Device Inn external link • Mon, Sep 22 • 3 related articles

By Liviu Anca The Japan Space Elevator Association have developed a space elevator to give up space traveling via rockets to elevators. The cable used to move the elevators is based on nanotube technology making it 180 times stronger than steel. ...

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