July 02, 2009

Space Elevator

This story in the AV press talks about the space elevator games. The power beaming challenge is one of NASA's Centennial Challenges. A helicopter will hover over Rogers dry lake with a 1 kilometer cable. A robot climber powered by a 8Kw laser will scale the cable. 6 teams are competing for a $2 million in prizes

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