›The European Space Elevator Challenge 2012

Make it ecology-minded, make it efficient, make it european!

Your challenge: Build a climber, that - based on the concept of a real space elevator - drives autonomously, carries high payloads and manages its energy efficiently. The 2nd round in 2012 again offers newcomers and advanced participants the opportunity to participate in two levels.

For the future of Space Elevator in Europe

The objectives of European Space Elevator Challenge are,

•     to inspire young engineers and scientists - especially in Europe - about the Idea of the Space Elevator and to establish furthermore a bigger Space Elevator community in Europe
•     to share experience, improve the understanding of the Space Elevator and finally make use of this knowledge in building the real Space Elevator
•     to introduce the Space Elevator to a wider public.

We recently extended our application deadline for participation, the deadline is: July 31st 2012