Keith Lofstrom

Keith Lofstrom

Keith Lofstrom is an electrical engineer who specializes in mixed signal integrated circuit design. He has a BSEE and MSEE from University of California, Berkeley but is more widely known in the space community for his work on the Launch Loop [http://www.launchloop.com/]

One of his patents is for a way to read an individual digital ID for integrated circuits that arises from random atomic variations inherent in the silicon manufacturing process [http://www.siidtech.com/index.html] .

He also contributed the key idea of a variable speed acceleration loop to a 50 mile transfer station for Keith Henson's moving cable space elevator concept. ( [http://eugen.leitl.org/A-2000-tonne-per-day-Space-Elevator1.ppt "A 2000 tonne per day Space Elevator"] )

External links

http://www.keithl.com/

http://www.kl-ic.com/index.html


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