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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-24-05 03:48 PM
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No winner in 'space elevator' competition
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Not a very auspicious beginning. The real thing will have to make it up 23,000 miles. These guys didn't make it to the top of a crane. Guess I'll have to look forward to the next competition.

The seven "robot climbers" entered in the competition didn't ascend more than a few dozen feet up a tether attached to a giant crane, the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News reported, therefore none performed well enough to win the $50,000 grand prize.

Two teams developed space elevators that were able to rise along the tether using power converted from spotlights.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20051024-14070400-bc-us-spaceelevator.xml
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