Space Conference Speaker

John Knapman

Director of Research, International Space Elevator Consortium

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Sessions: Space Elevators

John has been active in the space arena since 2005 working on variants of the Launch Loop. He started working on space elevators in 2010 and has published over 20 papers in journals and conferences. He has a mathematics degree and a Ph.D.

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Sessions: Space Elevators


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Ela Sen

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Dr. Fredrick Jenet

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Rod Pyle

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