The Space Elevator Reference: Space Elevator Competition Adds More Teams

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.

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Space Elevator Competition Adds More Teams

The Space Elevator 2005 Competition slated for the weekend of October 22nd has added two new teams to the Tether Competition. They are Centaurus Aerospace and Tethers Unlimited. The addition of Tethers Unlimited is a boost for the competition as they have been seriously involved in development of tethers for many years now. Tethers Unlimited was co-founded by the late Robert Forward and Robert Hoyt.