LiftPort Group

• April 2003, LiftPort Group founded.
• April 12, 2004, LiftPort Group cosponsored the Official Yuri's Night celebration in Seattle, Washington.{{cite news | title=Yuri's Night | work=Seattle Yuri's night 2004 | url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-20979869_ITM | access-date=April 22, 2009 | date=April 12, 2004}}

• 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.{{cite web|title=LiftPort Group |work=Lifter Demo at MIT |url=http://www.liftport.com/gallery/MITdemo_2004Nov |access-date=September 19, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050901125111/http://www.liftport.com/gallery/MITdemo_2004Nov |archive-date=September 1, 2005 }}
• 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.{{cite web | title=Millville Facility | work=Fruition of liftport nanotech | url=http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?2930 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050429210608/http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?2930 | url-status=usurped | archive-date=April 29, 2005 | access-date=April 22, 2009}}

• September 20, 2005, LiftPort Group designed and built a longer ribbon (called Tether) and load bearing balloon to further illustrate proof of concept and progress. The lifter climbed the {{convert|1000|ft|m|adj=on}} ribbon which was suspended from the balloon.{{cite web | title=successful 1000-foot lifter test | website=NBC News| date=September 23, 2005| url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9454786| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305151810/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9454786/| url-status=dead| archive-date=March 5, 2016}}
• January 2006 LiftPort successfully launched an observation and communication platform a mile 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 {{convert|1500|ft|m}}, surpassing its last test record by more than {{convert|500|ft|m}}.{{cite web|title=LiftPort Group |work=Mile-High Demo |url=http://www.liftport.com/index.php?site=news&news_id=3 |access-date=February 15, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060304021126/http://www.liftport.com/index.php?site=news&news_id=3 |archive-date=March 4, 2006 }}
• June 11, 2007, LiftPort was to be penalized due to an alleged illegal offering of shares of the company.{{cite web |url=http://www.dfi.wa.gov/sd/orders/S-06-077-07-SC01.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-10-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705071118/http://www.dfi.wa.gov/sd/orders/S-06-077-07-SC01.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-05 }}
• 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.STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS SECURITIES DIVISION , CONSENT ORDER Order Number S-06-077-09-CO01|{{cite web |url=http://www.dfi.wa.gov/sd/orders/S-06-077-09-CO01.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-11-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422063850/http://www.dfi.wa.gov/sd/orders/S-06-077-09-CO01.pdf |archive-date=2012-04-22 }}

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 [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/leag/ Lunar Exploration Analysis Group] (LEAG), LiftPort CTO Marshall Eubanks presented a paper on the Lunar Elevator co-authored by Michael Laine.[http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/leag2011/pdf/2043.pdf]|LADDER: The Development of a Prototype Lunar Space Elevator T.M. Eubanks and M. Laine, Liftport Luna

In August 2012, LiftPort announced the launch of KickStarter funding for their Lunar space elevator. This KickStarter fund can be found at

[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaellaine/space-elevator-science-climb-to-the-sky-a-tethered Space Elevator Kickstarter]. This project successfully exceeded its funding goal on September 13, 2012, requesting $8,000. It raised $110,353 from 3,468 backers.

The KickStarter project comments thread has many comments from backers asking what has happened with no response.[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaellaine/space-elevator-science-climb-to-the-sky-a-tethered/comments Kickstarter project comments thread]

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• LiftPort - The Space Elevator: Opening Space to Everyone, {{ISBN|978-1-59222-109-7}}

• [http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/08/popular-space-elevator-video-not-news-says-liftport-founder/ Viral video of LiftPort climber]

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