Space Gizmo (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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) | 11/19/2009
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Neatorama (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
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) | 11/16/2009
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) | 11/15/2009
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) | 11/12/2009
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...
TinyTechIP (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7615204.html This patent is based on a collaboration between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Tsinghua University and teaches a CVD fabrication method capable of producing long carbon nanotubes which may make the development of some speculative projects such as the space elevator more attainable. Claim 1 reads: 1. A continuous carbon nanotube strand having a length...
Military and Aerospace Electronics (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
WASHINGTON, 11 Nov. 2009. LaserMotive of Seattle won $900,000 in the 2009 Power Beaming challenge, part of NASA's Centennial Challenges program, for its demonstration of a new wireless energy beaming technology. LaserMotive engineers enabled a robotic device to climb a vertical cable via wireless power transmission, technology that could be used to help power a "space elevator" in the future....
Space Ref (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
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."
NASA Watch (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
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...
bjkeefe (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
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...
Universe Today (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The 2009 Space Elevator Games ran from November 4-6, and there is a winner! LaserMotive from Seattle took home the Level 1 prize of $900,000. Three teams competed for the $1.1 million and $900,000 prizes in this year's event: LaserMotive from Seattle, the Kansas City Space Pirates, and the University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team [...]
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 (euro600,000) prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator ...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
LaserMotive is awarded $900,000 after winning NASA's Space Elevator challenge, where teams compete to see who could drive their space elevator the fastest.
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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...
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