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Our New Motor!
Check out this awesome new motor we got! Nearly 18 inches long, and super heavy. Won’t that look great on our climber?! What’s that you say? You think it would be better used for some other function?...
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It Slices, It Dices…
…It Cooks! There are always more tests one can do when developing a new system, especially one like ours that is so different from what’s been done before. During one recent test, we ran our lasers at...
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Helicopter Testing, Version 2
There were a number of issues with the first batch of helicopter testing that Spaceward conducted back in July in preparation for the power beaming contest (now tentatively scheduled for mid-October)....
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REI: Sponsor and Test Site
I want to welcome REI (specifically, their flagship store in Seattle) as our newest sponsor, and thank them for letting us use the Pinnacle for climbing tests. (By the way, they’re having a fall sale –...
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Silver Springs Organics: Sponsor and Test Site
We have another sponsor who was also able to aid us by providing space for testing. Silver Springs Organics and Cattle Ranch not only was the site for the two helicopter tests by Spaceward, but also...
View ArticlePower Beaming Results, Nov. 3rd 2009
First, the (relatively) big news: LaserMotive today beamed roughly 400 watts of laser power to a moving target at a distance of 1 kilometer, as part of the vertical laser alignment procedure. The...
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The Otis Diet
Or: “How to lose 15 percent of your body weight in 24 hours.” (This article goes into more detail than our earlier post on happened for the final day of the 2009 power beaming competition.) After...
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LaserMotive Does DC
As we mentioned before, NASA held a technical symposium and recognition ceremony on February 25th and 26th for all the 2009 Centennial Challenge winners and the allied organizations which ran the...
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Vertical no more
It’s no secret that one critical factor in the 2009 competition success of LaserMotive came from extensive testing of the climber at the team’s facility on the specially designed vertical treadmill,...
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Preparations for NASA Power Beaming Competition 2011
At LaserMotive, work is well underway for our entry in the next NASA sponsored Power Beaming Competition. Nothing is official yet, but it’s looking like the competition could happen in the May/June...
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