International Space Elevator Consortium
Annual Studies
Each year ISEC members select a topic of importance to the development of space elevators and their operation. The topic is researched in depth and a report is published which contains their findings. These reports are available for download here at no cost. Hardcopy versions are available for purchase from the links provided.
2023 #2: Leverage Dual Space Access Architecture: Advanced Rockets and Space Elevators
2023 #1: The Climber-Tether Interface of the Space Elevator
2021: Space Elevators, the Green Road to Space
2020 #2: Space Elevators are the Transportation Story of the 21st Century
2020 #1: Today’s Space Elevator Assured Survivability Approach for Space Debris
2019: Today’s Space Elevator, maturing into the Galactic Harbour
2018: Design Considerations for the Multi-stage Space Elevator
2017: Design Considerations for a Software Space Elevator Simulator
2017: Space Elevators: A History
2016: Design Considerations for the Space Elevator Apex Anchor and GEO Node
2015: Design Considerations of a Space Elevator Earth Port
2014: Space Elevator Architecture and Roadmaps
2013: Design Considerations for Space Elevator Climbers
2023 #2
This Dual Space Access Strategy will ensure the future we dream of becomes a reality. Space Elevators are needed to do the “heavy lifting” for movement off planet. Their transformational characteristics will enable so many of humanity’s dreams by moving huge mass to far away destinations. Printed paperback version available for purchase from Lulu.com.
2023 #1
The conditions at the interface between the space elevator tether and climber determine whether or not climbing is possible. The construction of a tether material and a device to climb it seem possible in the near future. Study was also reported in Acta Astronautica.
2017
Specifications and guidelines for a space elevator dynamics, physics and operations simulation package are provided. Printed paperback version available for purchase from Lulu.com.
2014
Development of the space elevator can be divided into five segment roadmaps: tether, climber, Earth Port, Apex Anchor and Headquarters/Primary Operations Center. Printed paperback version available for purchase from Lulu.com or Amazon.