Important News

With LaserMotive winning $900,000 at the recent NASA Centennial Power Beaming Challenge, AKA the Space Elevator Games, there's still $1.1 million on the table to won. So Spaceward, the organizers have tentatively scheduled May 10 as the last chance for teams to compete for the the remaining money. The competition is open to any team that qualifies.

The games will be held at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base.

Watch the games trailer.

The Vision

Climbers ascend a ribbon, 100,000 km long, strung between an anchor on Earth and a counterweight in space. Connecting Earth and space in a way never before possible, the space elevator will enable us to inexpensively and completely expand our society into space.

The Work Ahead

This site will serve as a reference tool for those interested in exchanging ideas on the scientific, engineering, economic and policy challenges inherent in constructing the solar system's first space elevator.

The Resources

This site provides the following services: A collaborative space elevator Open Wiki, collaborative space elevator Developer Wiki, calendar of events, news from around the web and space elevator blogs, list of organizations and companies working on the space elevator, social networks, chat, image galleries and video galleries.

Marc Boucher, Editor