Capitol Hill Seattle (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Jordin Kare on His Laser-Powered Lifestyle, Space Elevators, and the Almighty ... The SunBreak (blog) He's been living on Capitol Hill since March 2003, though his first visit to Seattle was back in 1979. Previously at Lawrence Livermore, he moved up from ... Advertisement Advertise Here
Space Gizmo (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Late concept post, with four instead of the usual six. Sorry about that, but here you go. The `once upon a time’ science fiction concept of a space elevator has been envisioned and studied as a real mass transportation system in the latter part of the 21st century. David Smitherman of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight [...]
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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Mr. Chalk (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Science and Engineering have long suffered from the problem of being unfashionable and fairly difficult. They require some serious brain power rather than the ability to make a poster, take part in a non judgemental group workshop or just talk rubbish all day. Fewer and fewer bright students are taking these real subjects, so each year we drop further and further behind other countries. (Although we...
Neatorama (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
For over a century, space exploration enthusiasts have proposed building an elevator into low earth orbit using a very long cable stretching from the surface of the earth into space. Huge technical (particularly material) obstacles have prevented this dream from becoming a reality. But technology marches on, and some researchers have made progress: Funded [...]
Entertainment, Games and Travel (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
WASHINGTON - NASA has awarded $900,000 in prize money to a Seattle company that successfully demonstrated new wireless energy beaming technology which could one day be used to help power a "space elevator."
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
A laser-powered robotic climber has won 900,000 dollars NASA prize in a competition designed to spur technology for a future elevator to space. Building a space elevator would require anchoring a cable on the ground near Earth’s equator and deploying the other end thousands of kilometres into space. The centrifugal force due to Earth’s spin would keep [...]
advanced nanotechnology (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The Carnival of Space 128 is up at Astro Swanny This site provide the article covering Lasermotive winning the level space elevator beaming contest prize and coverage of a Spanish space hotel that is to be operational in 2012 Cosmic log covered the lunar lander competition. Weird Warp reviews different future space propulsion technology Check out the Carnival of Space 128 at Astro Swanny for a lot...
NASA Watch (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
NASA and Spaceward Foundation Award Prize Money for Successful Wireless Power Demonstration "NASA has awarded $900,000 in prize money to a Seattle company that successfully demonstrated new wireless energy beaming technology which could one day be used to help power...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
NASA has awarded $900,000 in prize money to a Seattle company that successfully demonstrated new wireless energy beaming technology which could one day be used to help power a “space elevator.” LaserMotive of Seattle was awarded the money after its performance in the Power Beaming Challenge competition, which was a demonstration of wireless power transmission that [...]
bjkeefe (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
There's a whole lot of fun stuff to read on Chad Orzel's new book-pimping site, DogPhysics.com . How good is he at demystifying physics and such? Here is John Scalzi's blurb for the book: My dog Kodi tells me that Chad Orzel explains physics with far more clarity and humor than I ever did, and that now she's just keeping me around for my opposable thumbs. Thanks a lot, Chad. And in case you miss the...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Image: Space Elevator Games. The LaserMotive vehicle gets weighed in. From Discover Magazine: A laser-powered robot took a climb up a cable in the Mohave Desert in Wednesday, and pushed ahead the sci-fi inspired notion of a space elevator capable of lifting astronauts, cargo, and even tourists up into orbit. The robot, built by LaserMotive of Seattle, whizzed up 2,953 feet (nearly 1 kilometer) in about...
dBTechno (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Washington (dbTechno) - A team from Seattle has managed to win $900,000 in the Space Elevator Games. The Space Elevator Games were backed by NASA and were a major competition to try and develop a way in which we could build an elevator to take people up to space. The Space Elevator Games ended with the team [...]
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
NASA has been trying to find someone that could meet its rigorous Space Elevator demands since 2005 and, after some notable failures, we finally have a winner. A company called LaserMotive has won the Beam Power Challenge, tasked with creating a laser-powered robot able to lift a weight on a cable at a speed of [...]
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You can call me Rick (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Last week in the Mojave Desert, three teams of engineers competed for a total NASA provided prize of $2,000,000 to build an elevator. NASA calls it the Power Beaming Challenge . Everyone else was calling it the Space Elevator Games . The challenge is described as a practical demonstration of wireless power transmission. Teams build mechanical devices (climbers) that can propel themselves up a vertical...
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