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Brian Turner and the Kansas City Space Pirates today issued this Press Release:<\/p>\nBrian Turner and the Kansas City Space Pirates today issued this Press Release:<\/p>\n
Kansas City Team Misses Half Million Dollar NASA Prize by 25 Seconds.<\/em><\/p>\n
The Kansas City Space Pirates just missed winning $500,000 from NASA\u00a0in the Spaceward Games 2007. They needed to make a robot called a\u00a0climber that could drag race straight up 100 Meters in 50 seconds.\u00a0Oh, and it could not have any batteries or fuel. All of it’s power\u00a0had to come from the ground and be “Beamed” up. The competition\u00a0encourages development of wireless power transmission technologies\u00a0for future applications like space elevators and moon mining. The\u00a0competition also proved too much for the other 22 entrants from 5\u00a0countries and some of the most prestigious universities in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n
The $500,000 will roll over to next year making the 2008 prize money\u00a0$900,000.<\/em><\/p>\n
This marks the second year for the KC Space Pirates. Last year they\u00a0startled everyone with the bold use of common mirrors to concentrate\u00a0sunshine, using ancient methods to tackle modern problems. That earned them the “Most Innovative Climber” award. This year they again\u00a0shocked everyone with the fastest peak speed ever seen in competition\u00a0of nearly 8-mph. A number of factors combined to prevent them from\u00a0maintaining that speed to the top of the competition ribbon, ranging\u00a0from weather, and electronics to plain bad luck. They finished second\u00a0overall behind a team from the University of Saskatchewan that\u00a0managed a better average speed using high power invisible lasers. Next year the goal will be raised higher and faster than this year.\u00a0And the KC Space Pirates have already started the fund raising\u00a0process to compete in this and future technical competitions.<\/em><\/p>\n
Their\u00a0captain Brian Turner said “We may not have won this year, but I hope\u00a0we made Kansas City proud.”<\/em><\/p>\n
For more information
\n<\/em>http:\/\/www.kcspacepirates.com<\/em><\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.elevator2010.org<\/em><\/a> <\/em>http:\/\/centennialchallenges.nasa.gov\/<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nLooks like Brian and company are already planning to come back next year – good news indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brian Turner and the Kansas City Space Pirates today issued this Press Release: Kansas City Team Misses Half Million Dollar NASA Prize by 25 Seconds. The Kansas City Space Pirates just missed winning $500,000 from NASA\u00a0in the Spaceward Games 2007. They needed to make a robot called a\u00a0climber that could drag race straight up 100 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}