A laser-powered machine has zipped thousands of feet up a cable dangling from a helicopter in a competition to develop space elevator technology. LaserMotive of Seattle qualified for at least $900,000 in the $2 million NASA-backed Space Elevator Games, which began Wednesday at the Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, California reports the Associated Press.
The $2M Power Beaming Challenge, part of the Space Elevator games, conducted by the Spaceward Foundation [video] in partnership with NASA, has a winner in Jordin T. Kare's LaserMotive. The Power Beaming challenge continues through Friday November 6 according to this MIT Technology Review report.
There is more on this story at The Telegraph, Next Big Future, Universe Today, and Cosmic Log.
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