●Why should we build the Space Elevator?
- Currently many companies and groups are researching and developing sub-orbital planes and rockets to deliver people and payloads to space.
- Even if they succeed to develop their vehicles, these vehicles need to expend chemical fuel, which is explosive and heavy, and therefore the people and payloads have a relatively high safety risk and the payload/total weight ratio is inefficient and therefore costly.
- Human beings should find a way to carry people and payloads to space safely and for a cheaper cost, which will make it more accessible.
- For this purpose, the space elevator is one of the ways to enter space.
● Why should humankind go to space?
- In addition to Human beings wondrous desire to explore new territories, there are other reasons expanding into space is absolutely required.
- Human beings innately want to multiply and expand their living area.
- Also, we know in the past there have been changes in Earth’s conditions that have made Earth inhospitable, including meteoroid impacts, global warming, and ice ages. These have occurred in the past and they can occur in the future and drastically affect living conditions on the Earth.
- Human beings have two options for the future (1) Decrease population, minimize artificial activities and live on Earth during all conditions of living, (2) Go to space, expand our living area, and actively evade and possibly stop disastrous events.
● Why did we join the 2007 Power Beaming Competition?
- Our team members are mainly experienced U.S. and Japanese Flight Controllers (contractors) who operate systems on the International Space Station and college students.
- In the near future, we are sure that we can have a space elevator and our team wants to lead this project using our manned space activity experience.
- We also would like to apply our engineering skills for space research and development, since in our careers we are space vehicle operators.
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