The privately held LiftPort Group Inc. made one of it’s milestones in its quest to build a space elevator.
A robot has successfully climbed up a 1,000 ft long ‘rope’ to a
teathered baloon. The rope was actually an ultra strong carbon
nano-tube ribbon that will eventually be stretched from a platform
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/blog/show/robot-climbing-to-space-100-000-km-to-go