Stephen Steiner and Daniel Pressl in front of a space elevator model. „When nano becomes macro!“, Daniel Pressl holding a tether of 2 meters length, made purely out of carbon nanotubes! The commercial price of this tether is $50.000. Dr. Bradley Edwards and Lauren DeFlores measuring up the tensile testing machine for the competition. NEWS: […]
We were looking into this 2 years ago, I remember, when we were working on making the strongest rope in the world, for the NASA Centennial Strong Tether Competition!:
Finally I find time to report: It was good to visit the HTL Wolfsberg again, in January, during my last stay in Austria. I gave a presentation about my current work with my company iPressl and about my PhD research at MIT: I spoke about my Social Networking Site for Austria: www.redwired.org the project MIT-Austria, […]
Greetings fellow Scientists and Engineers, Designers and Photographers, Teachers and WWW Programmers, … ! This is the blog regarding recent activities of iPressl (http://www.ipressl.com), my company, which I founded about a year ago in the fall 2006. iPressl is an ARTs and DESIGN, IDEAs, ENGINEERing and NETWORKing company: IDEAs and ENGINEERing (http://ipressl.com/idea.html): DELTAX has […]
Space Elevator Concept. The purpose of the Tether Challenge is to develop a very strong tether material for use in various structural applications. The competition requires a 50% improvement in breaking force from year to year, starting with a commercially available tether in 2005. Additional requirements (such as operating temperature range, vacuum compatibility, and controlled […]