The great majority of ISEC's time is now being devoted to the 2014 Space Elevator Conference - now less than 2 months away (you ARE attending, aren't you?). The Conference program will be posted very soon on the Conference website and this year's Conference promises to be chock-full of interesting presentations. We've had a record number of submissions for Presentations - interest is running very high!
In addition to the presentations, the Conference is also going to be hosting two workshops. These workshops will be approximately two hours long and are summarized here:
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Mini-Workshop: Concepts & Issues - Space Elevator Architectures and Roadmaps
Champions: Michael "Fitzer" Fitzgerald, Pete Swan, Skip Penny
Initial Presentation: "ISEC Report Major Points" - Fitzer
Goal: To stimulate thoughts and inputs from the conference attendees on tether roadmaps -- involve the attendee, where are we going?
Outputs: Draft ISEC Report to be available by 15 December - review upon request from attendee or interested party.
Approach:
- 30 minute major talk on topic.
- 5 minutes of discussion on handout sheet [stimulation of ideas and areas to discuss].
- 10 minutes of brainstorming on topics to discuss.
- 45 minutes of brainstorming in small groups [breakups along the lines of the topics to be discussed].
- 20 minutes of discussions by small groups to large audience on results of brainstorming.
- 10 minute summary.
- Champion and helper will summarize the results and put on web.
You can find a draft of the Worksheet for this Workshop
here.
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Mini-Workshop: Concepts & Issues - Space Elevator Research
Champions: John Knapman, Skip Penny, Dennis Wright
Initial Presentation: "ISEC Research Plans" - Knapman
Goal: To stimulate thoughts and inputs from the conference attendees on Research projects -- involve the attendee, where are we going? Some detailed objectives are:
- Understand the Research Committee's goals and process.
- Contribute by reviewing the list of research topics that the Research Committee has produced and elaborating on some (or all), particularly those on which little work has so far been done.
- Identify any missing topics.
- Where possible, produce estimates of timescales and costs for each topics.
- Where possible, propose who could carry out the work and where.
You can find a draft of the Worksheet for this Workshop
here.
The International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) is the result of a coming-together of many leading figures and organizations who have worked long and hard over many years to promote the concept of a Space Elevator. With organizational members in the United States, Europe and Japan and individual members from around the world, ISEC's goal is nothing less than to get a Space Elevator built.
