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Michael Laine, President www.liftport.com
@mlaine (862) Get-LF8D (862) 438-5383
about.me/michaellaine
www.facebook.com/liftport
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This Way to the Stars
Sic Itur Ad Astra
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Space Elevators What
How Why
Get Involved
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WhatGoal: Terrestrial Space Elevator
Precursor: Lunar Space Elevator InfrastructureFuture: Phobos Martian Space Elevator
Demonstrator: Deep Space Tether Pathfinder
IncrementalDevelopment: String-Sat(s)
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NASA Institute for Advanced
Concepts Design Video
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The view from Selene (1)
Photograph courtesy JAXA/ISIS
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Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure (LSEI)
Superimposed on an image of the Earth-Moon system from the
Juno spacecraft; taken August 26, 2011 from 9.66 million km.
Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL (to scale)
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Landing Site : Sinus Medii - right in the center of the near side.Photograph courtesy NASA,
Google Earth
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In 1967, the unmanned Surveyor 6 landed on
the other side of Sinus Medii.
Here is what the surface looked like.
Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL
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Sinus Medii - Landing Site from ~ 10 km altitudePhotograph courtesy NASA from
LROC Web Page
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How Current Technologies
Rockets
Robotics Communications
Computing
Materials! Sputnik-like Simplicity
Single Launch Solution
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What are we trying to do ?There has been much discussion in the last 50 years of
space exploration using megastructures.
A structure, deployed in space, designed to facilitate our access to
space and our use of space resources.
With current technology, these will be built of strings.
We feel that the time is right to begin building and using
these devices, using existing materials.
Quicken the pace of space exploration and development.
Build operational experience and engineering know-how.
Preparation for an eventual terrestrial space elevator.
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What is the LSEI?
A Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure is a system built around a
Ribbon reaching from the surface of the Lunar near-side, to
substantially beyond the first Earth-Moon Lagrange point (EML1).
One side of the Ribbon is attached to the Lunar surface.
The other side is kept taut by a CounterWeight. (CW)
The opposing force is the gravitational tidal force of the Earth.(Not rotational centrifugal force).
Tidal force is balanced against the gravitational force of the Moon.
The entire LSEI is in a dynamically stable Earth-Moon orbit.
The large Earth-Moon distance means that, while the dynamical
forces are relatively small to obtain sufficient tension either a very
long Ribbon or a very large CounterWeight is required.
Any prototype LSEI will be weight limited, and long.
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LSE ScienceWe are focusing on science directly related to monitoring,navigating or controlling the elevator, including the
Microrover and the Lunar sample return as proof of concepts.
We will use LLR retroreflectors for navigation; these also should
provide solid science for decades after the landing.
We are seeking partners for science opportunities, both on
the descent, with the Counterweight, and with the landing
platform.
What follows is what we see as some of the science
opportunities afforded by the LSE.We feel confident that others will emerge...
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ConclusionsThe DSTP and the LSEI offer a means of
Getting to the Moon again in an entirely new fashion, using currently availabletechnology.
The DSTP is the linch-pin for allfuture megastructure developments, and should
provide a lunar sample return from a currently inaccessible region.
The LSEI would provide continuing access to the Lunar surface, plus sample returns
and a Lunar transportation infrastructure, for the cost o f a Discovery Class
miss ion.
This is for existing fibers - while even a modest improvement in fiber
technology would bring substantial improvements in payload capacity, we do
not require this.
The DSTP and the LSEI offer a path to a man-rated LSE and a Phobos-
anchored Mars elevator.
This is Space 2.0 : space exploration for the 21st-century, not just an
attempt to repeat what was done 40 years ago.
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The LSEI is also good scienceIn the prototype, a small solar powered climber will belowered to the Lunar surface, scientific instruments will
be deployed and the climber be loaded with surface
samples.
The climber will then climb back to a sample return
capsule,located at the EML 1 Lagrange point.
The climber plus sample return capsule will be
taken to a suitable altitude above EML 1 for return to
Earth.
Sample return via the LSE requires no expenditure of fuel.
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CURRENT PRODUCTS:
Http://liftport.com/Tethered-Towers for disaster response
Robotics ASU
http://www.agorastartupidol.com/startup.php?id=102
Consulting, Teaching, Speaking Engagements, Books
Nonprofit education with LeewardSpaceFoundation.org
developing Liftport.org and interns and Space Elevator
Invitational, Seattle quarterly
Http://on.fb.me/HeokqxOpen Source apps
Link to https://github.com/LiftportGroup/LiftPort/wiki MEDIA:
http://stars-space.comart, Tours
http://youtube.com/elevatortospace, film, social media
http://www.agorastartupidol.com/startup.php?id=102http://on.fb.me/Heokqxhttp://stars-space.com/http://youtube.com/elevatortospacehttp://youtube.com/elevatortospacehttp://stars-space.com/http://stars-space.com/http://stars-space.com/http://on.fb.me/Heokqxhttp://www.agorastartupidol.com/startup.php?id=102http://www.agorastartupidol.com/startup.php?id=1028/13/2019 BIL Radley
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LiftPortal Web Michelle CadieuxIT/ Education and Mobile apps development
See http://on.me.fb/Heokqxfacebook fanpage for
https://github.com/LiftportGroup/LiftPort/wik
Business plans for NASA Tech Partnerships, AMES, Space Frontier
Foundation, Leeward Space Foundation
Business competitions: http://spaceappschallenge.organd ATT inpartnership with startup hackathons, incubators and accelerators across
the country.
SF: StartupIdol, Greenstart, Launch, Singularity Institute SynBio,
Biocurious, AssayDepot, Twilio, Founders groups.
(Proposed: Stanford StartX, 59daysofcode, codeforamerica, )
Startup America, Random Hacks of Kindness, MassChallenge Boston,
Pitch Milwaukee, MN; Project Skyway, MN Open (ycombinator- MC), Citrix,
Bizspark, and more
Social media presence. Facebook, list of sites.
(Adam Glickman Quality Engineering nano projects)
http://on.me.fb/Heokqxhttps://github.com/LiftportGroup/LiftPort/wikhttp://spaceappschallenge.org/http://spaceappschallenge.org/https://github.com/LiftportGroup/LiftPort/wikhttps://github.com/LiftportGroup/LiftPort/wikhttp://on.me.fb/Heokqx8/13/2019 BIL Radley
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Deployment
Solar Electric Propulsion
Deployment Lawn-Darts on the Moon
Manned Lifter
PicoGravity Manufacturing Lab
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Why
Greed
Clean, Green, Limitless Energy of Earth
Fear
Single Point of Failure Species
Hope Settlement, Science, Spinoffs + Resources
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Michael Laine, President
www.liftport.com
@mlaine (862) Get-LF8D (862) 438-5383
about.me/michaellaine www.facebook.com/liftport
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