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Elevator to the Moon to Become Reality in 8 Years

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The LiftPort Group, a US-based privately-owned company, with former NASA researcher Michael Laine at the head, is planning to build a space elevator to the Moon. The idea of a space elevator stipulates a rocket-free way to transport people and cargoes into orbit with the use of a special cable.

The California-based company founded by former NASA engineer has developed a cheap and easy way to get to the lunar surface. The project is based on a special ribbon cable, on which transport modules and autonomous robots will travel. At first, the researchers plan to test the system on the planet: the test elevator will be 2 kilometers high. Afterwards, a working system will be built. Initially, the company will use a space elevator to connect the Moon with a specially designed space station. The station will then be connected to a platform on Earth.

Company President Michael Laine believes that it will take eight years to build the elevator. The construction will require only a single launch of a spacecraft that would technically resemble the famous Soviet Sputnik-1. It is assumed that such an elevator can already become a part of modern-day reality taking into consideration the current level of the technological development.

The space elevator, scientists say, will help people build manned bases on the Earth’s natural satellite and organize the extraction of helium-3 there – a raw material that will solve global problems of the shortage of energy resources, writes EnergySafe. According to most pessimistic estimates, the reserves of helium-3 on the Moon will be enough for Earth’s population for at least 1,000 years.

LiftPort Group does not doubt its success. The company is going to attract potential investors after the tests that will be conducted on the funds raised on the Internet. NASA, where Michael Lane worked before, has already evinced interest in the project, reportsFreeSMI.by.

The idea of a space elevator is not new. For the first time, it was put forward by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895. Afterwards, the idea received detailed analysis in the works of scientist Yuri Artsutanov,  the Rossiyskaya Gazeta wrote.

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    • Dust

      BS

    • nimbunje

      What about the electrical charge difference that builds up ?

    • Gojiroiscoming

      Space elevator technology is possible, and Michael Laine is one of many people researching aspects of it. But as far as I know, Space Elevator requires the station to be in geosynchronous orbit so its directly over the “ground floor”. This would mean the “top floor” of the elevator rotates with the Earth. So you can at least build one elevator to get you into LEO.

      You can build another elevator on the moon, in the same fashion, with a geosynchronous orbit over whatever lunar base is established.

      But connecting the two would be impossible because the Earth based platform will be rotating with the Earth and will vary in distance and even be obscured by the planet itself during the course of the day. However you can build a taxi that would ferry between platforms, and wouldn’t require as much fuel as a rocket because it would be operating in low to zero g situations.

      But as far as I can tell, and from what ive read on space elevator development, its impossible to build an elevator from the Earth directly to the Moon. 2 elevators and a taxi? That’s actually possible. Staging that material to build a lunar base will require a lot of missions. Unless the goal is to send robots who build a base using material found on the moon.

    • John L Sullivan

      Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think that the Moon does not rotate like the Earth does, so surely, if you are going to build some kind of “Lift To The Moon,” would it not be easier to build it down from the Moon, rather than up to it? Seeing as the Earth rotates at a considerable speed, it would only be feasible to use the lift once a day, and I would have thought that would be incredibly dangerous. If they built the lift down from the Moon, and left the platform to access it, just outside of Earth’s atmosphere, then it would be a relatively easy trip, with all the new craft being designed for space flight right now, to dock at a platform, and then ascend! :shock:

    • Hang all drunkdrivers

      Sounds like another scam. Now look for congress to take your tax dollars and give it to these companies and no elevator gets built.

    • pigsdofly

      Is this the “cabal funnies?”

    • Anonymous

      We’ll see. They’ve been talking about this for decades. It was Clarke’s idea originally. He wrote about it in Fountains of Paradise.

    • Don't be hating!

      How about FREE ENERGY! Screw the DAMM elevator..

    • Pix

      We can build an elevator to a staging post. But we can’t build one to the moon, because the moon revolves around Earth, it doesn’t stay in the same place, the wire would stretch and snap instantly. Stupid article written by a moron.

    • OBAMAbinBIDEN

      haha

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