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The August issue of Acta Astronautica is now available and includes a paper by Brendan Quine, professor of space physics and engineering in York's Faculty of Science & Engineering, and his team. The paper is titled: A free-standing space elevator structure: A practical alternative to the space tether. It's also available as a download (PDF) from Elsevier Science Direct for $31.50 US.

I have not had the chance to read the paper yet but I will later this week but the premise is interesting. Instead of manufacturing a complete Space Elevator that stretches 100,000 km, the paper discusses a 20 km elevator that is constructed at a 5 km altitude.

I'm starting to collect the papers from the recent Space Elevator sessions of the 2005 International Astronautical Congress held in Fukuoka, Japan.

If you were a presenter and I have not contacted you yet you I'll be contacting you shortly for permission to post your paper. Or you can send it to me at "marc.boucher AT gmail.com".

Papers from the 2004 conference sessions can be found here.