session 4

Title: Space Elevators and Tethers
Description: This session will cover the identification of key technologies readiness and possible development strategies for space elevators and tethers.
Date: 2011-10-07
Time: 09:00
Room: TS-11

IPC members

Chairman: Dr. Peter Swan, Teaching Science and Technology, Inc (TSTI), United States;
Chairman: Mr. Robert E Penny, Cholla Space Systems, United States;
Rapporteur: Dr. David Raitt, The Netherlands;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	Space Elevator Road Map 2011	15	confirmed	Mr. Akira Tsuchida	Earth-Track Corporation	Japan
2	Space Elevator Stage I	15	confirmed	Dr. John Knapman		United Kingdom
3	Deployment Dynamics of Space Elevator Ribbon	15	withdrawn	Prof. Andre Mazzoleni	North Carolina State University	United States
4	Quick-Look Operations Concept for a Space Elevator	15	confirmed	Dr. Peter Swan	SouthWest Analytic Network	United States
5	Coordinated attitude control for enhanced shape stability of a space web	15	confirmed	Dr. Marco Sabatini	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
6	Sling on a Ring: mass- and man-transport to space	15	confirmed	Dr. Andrew Meulenberg	Universiti Sains Malaysia	Malaysia
7	Oscillations of a Spacecraft with Tether	15	withdrawn	Prof. Vladimir S. Aslanov	Samara National Research University (Samara University)	Russian Federation
8	DYNAMICS OF A PLANET-TETHERED SPACECRAFT	15	confirmed	Prof. Anna Guerman	Centre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technologies (C-MAST)	Portugal
9	Orbital propulsion of spinning tether via angular momentum transfer	15	no-show	Mr. Yang Yu	Tsinghua University	China