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A Review of ERA5 Equatorial Wind Data and Impact on a Space Elevator
Blaise Gassend, Jonathan Gassend
This paper uses the ERA5 weather dataset to assess the impact of the wind on an equatorial space elevator. An analytical formulation establishes that the effect of wind on tether i…
Non-Equatorial Uniform-Stress Space Elevators
Blaise Gassend
Non-equatorial space elevators are interesting as they give more freedom for anchor location, avoid the highly occupied geosynchronous orbit and the areas of highest radiation in t…
Coherent lidar for ride-hailing autonomous vehicles
Alexander Y. Piggott, Cathy Yunshan Jiang, John Lam +2
Coherent lidars promise a number of advantages over traditional time-of-flight lidars for autonomous vehicles. These include the direct measurement of target approach velocities vi…
Exponential Tethers for Accelerated Space Elevator Deployment
Blaise Gassend
An exponential space elevator is a space elevator with a tether cross-section that varies exponentially with altitude. With such an elevator it is possible to reel in tether materi…
A Generalized Carpenter's Rule Theorem for Self-Touching Linkages
Timothy G. Abbott, Erik D. Demaine, Blaise Gassend
The Carpenter's Rule Theorem states that any chain linkage in the plane can be folded continuously between any two configurations while preserving the bar lengths and without the b…
Knowledge Flow Analysis for Security Protocols
Emina Torlak, Marten van Dijk, Blaise Gassend +2
Knowledge flow analysis offers a simple and flexible way to find flaws in security protocols. A protocol is described by a collection of rules constraining the propagation of knowl…