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Michael Laine, President www.liftport.com

@mlaine (862) Get-LF8D (862) 438-5383

[email protected]

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=102


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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/Heokqx


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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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www.liftport.com

@mlaine (862) Get-LF8D (862) 438-5383

[email protected]

about.me/michaellaine www.facebook.com/liftport

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