Japan is about to Check out Plans for a Genuine life Space Elevator

The plan of a space elevator to lift us into orbit is one of the oldest concept in sci-fi, but thanks to the pains of scientists in Japan, we might soon be seeing this fantastic feat of engineering become a truth at last.
A mini satellite called STARS-C (Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite-Cube) is title to the International Space Station in the future months and is a prototype design that could form the base of a future space elevator.

Once STARS-C has been deliver – on some to-be-determined date following the Northern Hemisphere's summer – its makers at Shizuoka University will put it to the check: the orbiter will split into 2  10-cm (3.94-inch) cubes & spool out a thin 100-metre tether complete of Kevlar between them.
If plans for a space elevator are to get off the ground, a super-strong join like this will one day winch people &  supplies up from the Earth, so these tests are going to be crucial in discovery if this kind of project can actually work.
The satellite is the creation of engineers Yoshiki Yamagiwa and Masahiro Nomi, who came up with the concept in 2014 and submit their idea to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). STARS-C will eventually be launch from the Kibo module on the ISS, owned by JAXA.
"The satellites move not presently vertically, but horizontally as well when we get bigger their tethers," Yamagiwa told The Asahi Shimbun. "As data have to be collected in detail to control the satellite in space with precision, we hope to do it correctly this time."
An previous microsatellite experiment, led by scientists at Kagawa University, failed in this value, not collecting enough data for it to be helpful.
Ham radio frequencies are leaving to be used to control and get feedback from STARS-C, and to that end the team is ask for amateur radio operator on the ground to help collect signals.
STARS-C, which weighs 2.66 kilograms (5.68 pounds), is also going to help scientists discover ways in which space debris might be clean up from around the edge of the atmosphere – if it can't pull public into orbit, it could at least catch floating space junk.
Also in the satellite cube's favour is the fact it was built for presently $98,000, which isn't too much of an outlay in terms of the normal high costs of space equipment.If you're new to the whole space elevator concept, it's a proposal that's precisely what it sounds like: a towering shaft or crane to push or pull citizens from Earth into space and back again. The major counterweight (in this case, the STARS-C) and its join would be kept in place with the help of centrifugal force as the planet rotates.
It power sound kind of unbelievable, but if scientists can pull it off, working space elevators could revolutionise how we get into path, using a lot less fuel and needing a lot less cash than the rockets we rely on today. We can't stay to see how STARS-C goes in testing.