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LaserMotive Wins NASA's Centennial Challenges Program with Wireless Energy Beaming Technology LaserMotive engineers enabled a robotic device to climb a vertical cable via wireless power transmission, technology that could help power a "space elevator" in the future |
PC Magazine
April 5, 2006
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Going Up? Arthur C. Clarke's 1978 novel Fountains of Paradise proposed that an elevator to space would be feasible. Now, LiftPort Group is aiming to make the dream a reality. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2005
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A Hoist to the Heavens A space elevator could be the biggest thing to happen since the Stone Age, but can we build one? Many aspects are already being imagined and considered by forward-thinking engineers. |
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April 2003
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Starlight Express Nanotech's promise is out of this world. Just ask Brad Edwards, who's planning to build a carbon-nanotube elevator that goes 62,000 miles straight up. |
Inc.
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Going Up? The private space industry is expected to grow by $7.7 billion in 2004. But many of the fledgling ventures seem extremely risky. Like, say, the company that wants to build an elevator to the stars. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Saswato Das |
Audio Transcript: Interview with Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke, famed science-fiction writer of 2001: A Space Odyssey, spent a lifetime imagining and writing about technology. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Saswato R. Das |
Final Thoughts from Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) The last interview with the late Sir Arthur in a Sri Lanka hospital in January found the famed author still entranced with terraforming planets, space elevators, and the search for extraterrestrials |
PC Magazine
March 15, 2006 |
Bits & Bites v25n6 LiftPort Group has stood a space elevator cable one mile into the air, held aloft by a weather balloon, and robots have successfully climbed up and down. |
Reason
October 2005
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DIY Sci-Fi While governments have long been at the forefront of space exploration, cheap computing power has brought complex design and engineering tasks within reach of small teams of problem solvers. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2005
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NASA plans laser-based satellite-tracking network NASA optoelectronics experts are making plans to build a new ground-based global network that uses green laser beams to track orbiting satellites and to study Earth. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
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X Prize CEO Thinks Obama's 2010 NASA Budget Good for Space The new approach NASA has taken has laid the foundation for the Google, Cisco and Apple computers of space to be born. And, ultimately, lays the foundation for the rest of us to have a chance to get to go to space. |
Popular Mechanics
October 28, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Rooting for NASA's Ares I Rockets: Analysis This week, all eyes were on NASA as it conducted the first flight of the Ares I, the first launch vehicle the agency designed since the Space Shuttle. October also witnessed progress in other space launches |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Top Floor: Space NASA opens space elevator competition to private companies. But you needn't wait for investing opportunities. Carbon nanotubes are expected to play a major role here, and that's good news for small pure-play nano firms, such as Harris & Harris and Arrowhead Research. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2010
John Keller |
Global Hawk UAV Goes to Work for NASA to Monitor Environmental Conditions on Earth NASA is operating two Global Hawk UAVs for environmental Earth observation. |
Popular Mechanics
February 26, 2010
Rand Simberg |
Suborbital Safety: Will Commercial Spaceflight Ramp Up the Risk? Ever since the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, almost a quarter of a century ago, the watchword above all others at NASA has been "safety." Unfortunately, watchwords don't necessarily create actual safety, as we learned a little over seven years ago, with the loss of her sister ship Columbia. |
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NASA Studying The Sun The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star. |
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October 2007
Saswato R. Das |
Remembering Sputnik: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Although he is more revered for his role as an author, Clarke has well deserved the title of futurist for his groundbreaking thinking on space exploration. Here's an interview. |
Popular Mechanics
February 8, 2010
Rand Simberg |
The New NASA: A Path To Anywhere, And Everywhere The author believes that NASA's new path, outlined by the president's budget, holds promise of real progress. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2009
Rand Simberg |
Risk Aversion and NASA Don't Mix: Augustine Report Analysis We now know the options that the Augustine panel is going to present to the administration for the future of NASA human spaceflight, because the summary was released on Tuesday. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2005
John Rhea |
Money for space Space exploration is becoming politically fashionable again, and advanced technology firms would be well advised to get on board while the getting is good. |
