The Periodic Graphics article in the July 1, 2024, issue of C&EN titled “The Science of Space Elevators” (page 25) is so oversimplified as to be tantamount to farce. The implication from the article ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While much of the first day of the Space Elevator Conference was dedicated to the problem of space trash, the concept also faces another significant challenge. “We have one big problem — everything ...

Disney World, Epcot, Universal Studios and … Space Orlando. In the future, Florida could be the site of a simulated “elevator” that allows people to check out life on a space station, virtually.