cheap reliable access to space genre science advancement in space travel space space elevator founder michael j. laine headquarters snohomish washington usa key people michael j. laine products space elevator carbon nanotubes cnt website http www.liftport.com liftport group is a privately held washington state corporation . it was founded in april 2003 by michael j. laine . the company is focused on the construction of a space elevator using carbon nanotubes . 1 contents 1 history 2 lunar space elevator 3 references 4 bibliography 5 external links history edit april 2003 liftport group founded . april 12 2004 liftport group cosponsored the official yuri s night celebration in seattle washington . 2 november 12 2004 demonstrated a lifter at the massachusetts institute of technology by having it climb up a ribbon approximately 90 meters tall during a snowstorm . 3 april 29 2005 announced plans for a carbon nanotube manufacturing plant the company s first formal facility for production of the material on a commercial scale . the new facility was to serve as the regional headquarters for the company and represent the fruition of liftport group s three years of research and development efforts into carbon nanotubes including partnering work with a variety of leading research institutions in the business and academic communities . set to open in june 2005 liftport nanotech was to be located in millville new jersey . 4 september 20 2005 liftport group designed and built a better lifter longer ribbon tether and load bearing balloon to further illustrate proof of concept and progress . the lifter climbed the 1 000 foot 300 m ribbon which was suspended from the balloon . 5 january 2006 liftport successfully launched an observation and communication platform a full mile a kilometer and a half in the air and maintained it in a stationary position for more than six hours while robotic lifters climbed up and down a ribbon attached to the platform . the platform a proprietary system that the company has named hale high altitude long endurance was secured in place by an arrangement of high altitude balloons which were also used to launch it . the robotic lifters measured five feet six inches 1.7 meters and climbed to a height of more than 1 500 feet 460 m surpassing its last test record by more than 500 feet 150 m . 6 june 11 2007 liftport was to be penalized due to an alleged illegal offering of shares of the company . 7 february 16 2010 liftport group entered into a consent settlement with the state of washington agreeing to cease and desist specified activities and no fine was imposed . 8 lunar space elevator edit in october 2011 on the liftport website laine announced that liftport is pursuing a lunar space elevator as an interim goal before attempting a terrestrial elevator . at the 2011 annual meeting of the lunar exploration analysis group leag liftport cto marshall eubanks presented a paper on the lunar elevator co authored by michael laine . 9 in august 2012 liftport announced the launch of kickstarter funding for their lunar space elevator . this kickstarter fund can be found at space elevator kickstarter . this project successfully exceeded its funding goal on september 13 2012 requesting 8 000 they raised 110 353 from 3 468 backers to date most of the backers haven t received anything and consider michael laine a con artist even filing suit against him in washington state . 10 references edit liftport group wiki . igoals . retrieved april 22 2009 . yuri s night . seattle yuri s night 2004 . april 12 2004 . retrieved april 22 2009 . liftport group . lifter demo at mit . retrieved september 19 2005 . millville facility . fruition of liftport nanotech . retrieved april 22 2009 . successful 1000 foot lifter test . liftport group . mile high demo . retrieved february 15 2006 . 1 state of washington department of financial institutions securities division consent order order number s 06 077 09 co01 2 3 ladder the development of a prototype lunar space elevator t.m. eubanks and m. laine liftport luna 4 bibliography edit liftport the space elevator opening space to everyone isbn 978 1 59222 109 7 external links edit viral video of liftport climber v t e space elevator main articles history structure construction economics safety in fiction technologies electromagnetic propulsion counterweight carbon nanotube nanotechnology space tether momentum exchange tether related concepts launch loop lunar space elevator orbital ring skyhook space fountain competitions list of competitions elevator 2010 people yuri artsutanov bradley c. edwards jerome pearson konstantin tsiolkovsky organizations kc space pirates lasermotive liftport group non rocket spacelaunch spaceflight megascale engineering v t e space tourism companies armadillo aerospace bigelow aerospace blue origin airbus d & s golden spike company mojave aerospace ventures orbital sciences corporation citation needed rocketship tours sierra nevada corporation space 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