Elevator 2010’s Annual Space Elevator Games
Published October 25th, 2005
Elevator:2010 is designed to address the “social engineering” of the Space Elevator.
“Our flagship competition event, the climber competition challenges university, enthusiasts and private industry teams to design and build the best possible Space Elevator climber prototype.
We provide the race track, in the form of a crane-suspended vertical ribbon (and other support hardware), and the teams provide the climbers that carry payload up that ribbon. The climbers are rated on the basis of speed and amount of payload.
Our goal is to infect the engineering and science community with our passion for building the Space Elevator, thus making them ambassadors to our cause. As the fruits of their efforts take to the air every year, we will have demonstrated the feasibility and sheer simplicity of the Space Elevator concept, and will have brought it closer to reality.”
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