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2. Michael Laine, President www.liftport.com @mlaine (862) Get-LF8D – (862) 438-5383 laine@liftport.com about.me/michaellaine www.facebook.com/liftport 2

3. This Way to the Stars Sic Itur Ad Astra 3

4. Space Elevators What How Why Get Involved 4

5. What Goal: Terrestrial Space Elevator Precursor: Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure Future: Phobos Martian Space Elevator Demonstrator: Deep Space Tether Pathfinder Incremental Development: String-Sat(s) 5

6. NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Design Video. 6

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8. 8 The view from Selene (1) Photograph courtesy JAXA/ISIS

9. 9 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)

10. 10 Landing Site : Sinus Medii - right in the center of the near side. Photograph courtesy NASA, Google Earth

11. 11 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

12. 12 + Sinus Medii - Landing Site from ~ 10 km altitude Photograph courtesy NASA from LROC Web Page

13. How Current Technologies –Rockets –Robotics –Communications –Computing –Materials! Sputnik-like Simplicity Single Launch Solution 13

14. 14 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.

15. 15 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.

16. 16 LSE Science ● We 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...

17. 17 Conclusions ● The DSTP and the LSEI offer a means of – Getting to the Moon again in an entirely new fashion, using currently available technology. – The DSTP is the linch-pin for all future 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 of a Discovery Class mission. ● 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.

18. 18 The LSEI is also good science ● In the prototype, a small solar powered climber will be lowered 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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22. Why Greed –Clean, Green, Limitless Energy of Earth Fear –Single Point of Failure Species Hope –Settlement, Science, Spinoffs + Resources 22

23. Get Involved Sum of Human Knowledge –Technology –Business –Outreach –Framework 23

24. Michael Laine, President www.liftport.com @mlaine (862) Get-LF8D – (862) 438-5383 laine@liftport.com about.me/michaellaine www.facebook.com/liftport 24