Japan Space Elevator

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Japan space elevator. On the 11th of september japan s space company will launch it into space destination the international space station. Now clarke s vision may soon come to fruition when a japanese company begins work on its own space elevator. Estimates the total cost of a fully functional first generation space elevator to be 10 trillion yen about 90 billion almost the same as that for the maglev train project.

A japanese team is testing a small prototype space elevator according to news reports. It s certainly not the fantastical many kilometer long cable of science fiction but it demonstrates that at. In japan the space elevator is practically a part of the national psyche due in part to a deep expertise by japanese researchers in the fields of robotics and carbon nanotube technology starting.

Researchers heading into space in the not too distant future could be travelling by elevator rather than rocket if japanese construction giant obayashi corporation has its way. In 1979 famed science fiction author arthur c. In september 2018 a japanese team of scientists will take this dream one step closer to reality when they do the first trial of an elevator in space.

Clarke wrote a book titled the fountains of paradise in which a future society builds an elevator to space from a tiny island on the equator. Researchers at the shizuoka university have produced the test equipment. A team of researchers from japan s shizuoka university and other institutions will conduct the first test in space this month as part of a project to build a space elevator japan s the mainichi.