{"id":1314,"date":"2009-11-04T18:55:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T23:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2009-11-04T20:08:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T01:08:33","slug":"lasermotive-qualifies-for-nasa-prize-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"LaserMotive qualifies for NASA Prize Money!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"151\" src=\"\/media\/LaserMotiveLogo.jpg\"  height=\"56\" style=\"width: 151px; height: 56px\" \/>Today history was made.\u00a0 The Team LaserMotive climber traveled the raceway (approximately 900 meters) in 4 minutes, 2 seconds, about 3.72 meters\/second.\u00a0 This run more than doubles the previous best beam-powered climb (performed by USST in the 2007 competition) of 1.8 meters\/second.<\/p>\n<p>While this run does not qualify for the 5 meters\/second prize, it easily qualifies for the 2 meter\/second prize &#8211; a cool $900,000&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Their performance was very impressive.\u00a0 On their first run, their climber would not move at all.\u00a0 They brought the climber down and did &#8216;something&#8217; to it (I&#8217;ll find out what it was and report back &#8211; and I&#8217;m sure it will be on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/?page_id=5\">their blog<\/a>, too).\u00a0 They then ran the course in the aforementioned 4 minutes and 2 seconds.\u00a0 For good measure, they did it again, in approximately the same time.<\/p>\n<p>And this is just their first shot.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll have another chance tomorrow (and, perhaps, Friday) to better their time.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures and more info will be up soon.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, congratulations to LaserMotive!<\/p>\n<p><em>(Correction: Their second run was completed in 4 minutes and 1 second; 1 second faster than their first run &#8211; Well Done!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today history was made.\u00a0 The Team LaserMotive climber traveled the raceway (approximately 900 meters) in 4 minutes, 2 seconds, about 3.72 meters\/second.\u00a0 This run more than doubles the previous best beam-powered climb (performed by USST in the 2007 competition) of 1.8 meters\/second. While this run does not qualify for the 5 meters\/second prize, it easily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}