Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Literally cheered mention of the Space Elevator during the opening montage of the new season of For All Mankind!
@OliviaVespera have you considered how a Space Elevator fits into Solar Punk? No rockets, no debris burning up in the atmosphere, and it opens up Space to the Masses, whereas with rockets it will only be the domain of the elite.
Adamas NemesisDance your way to the stars? Maybe not *quite*, but the physics of maglev in vacuum tubes is shockingly forgiving. Footfall, captured, can provide enough energy to cross continents in mere hours...
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2026/04/12/the-silent-city-and-the-space-elevator/
This post's featured rendering is of a space elevator by Pat Rawlings for NASA.
#technology #science #sciencefiction #physics #scifi #futurism #futurology #future #spaceelevator #spaceflight #transportation #trains #maglev #vactrains
Y'know, with a Space Elevator there isn't a 6 minute window where you are out of contact and could be dead...
Internl Space Elevator ConsrtmOur partner organisation, the British Interplanetary Society, is proud to support the 2026 International Space Competition, inviting young people aged 12–19 to design a “Martian Gateway” – a space station in orbit around Mars that links Earth, the Moon and a future Mars base.
The competition is free to enter for individuals or teams of up to three, with major prizes including scholarships and STEM course places. Entries are open worldwide until 31 May 2026.
Find full details and registration via the Arts & Business College of London, follow this link : https://abclondon.org.uk/programmes/stem/space-competition-2026/
Could your Gateway concept include a #SpaceElevator to the Mars surface ? That's for you to decide !
Our March 2026 #SpaceElevator Newsletter is published, with :
- President’s Note
- Chief Architect’s Corner
- SE Academic Challenge 2026 Winners Announced
- ISEC Intern 2026 Announcement
- Conference Proceedings for 2025 and Registration for ISEC 2026
- Space Elevator Design Verification : by @pteerr
- Tether Materials : by @Adriannxion
- ISEC Terminology
- Around the Web
...and much more !
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Spaceflight 🚀Today there are three known materials strong enough for a #SpaceElevator: carbon nanotubes, hexagonal boron nitride, and single crystal graphene. Single crystal #graphene is currently the most promising. https://www.isec.org/space-elevator-tether-materials
In graphene, the #carbon forms a sheet of interlocked atoms as hexagons one carbon atom ⚛️ thick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene
T1200-grade fibre has a tensile strength 💪 10 times greater than ordinary steel, yet it is less than one-tenth of a human hair in diameter. Using 120,000 carbon-fibre filaments twisted together, the carbon-fibre rope has a diameter of under 2mm when taut. It is strong enough to tow a coach 🚍 loaded with 54 adults https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3346398/china-beats-us-japan-carbon-fibre-arms-race-create-worlds-first-t1200-factory
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