{"id":585,"date":"2009-11-08T05:23:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:23:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:23:47","slug":"live-event-nasa-sponsored-power-beaming-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/live-event-nasa-sponsored-power-beaming-challenge.php","title":{"rendered":"Live Event: NASA-Sponsored Power Beaming Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"segames_sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/84915_segames_sm.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><br><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/84915_arrow.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"> <b> Marc's note: <\/b> NASA's Centennial Challenge for Power Beaming AKA the Space Elevator Games is now <a href=\"http:\/\/live.spaceelevatorgames.org\/\">broadcasting live<\/a>. Three teams are competing for up to $2 million in prize money. It is believed that one or more of the teams will win at least level one and perhaps level two prize money. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\">Spaceward Foundation<\/a> organized and manages the event for NASA.<\/p><p><b> Marc's Update: <\/b>The KC Space Pirates did not qualify in the morning window for either of the prizes. However <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/\">Lasermotive<\/a> of Seattle has officially qualified for the level 1 prize of $900,000 in their first window of the competition this afternoon. They are currently attempting another climb trying to qualify for the level 2 prize of $1.1 million. Other teams will have an opportunity to share in the prize money. To get a share of level 1 teams have to climb the 1 kilometer tether at an average of 2 meters per second and 5 meters per second for the level two prize. <\/p><p><b>Marc's Update: <\/b> Competition is done for the day with Lasermotive having qualified for level 1 prize money of $900,000. The competition continues tomorrow through Friday.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevator.com\/2009\/11\/lasermotive-wins-share-of-the-nasa-sponsored-power-beaming-challenge.html\">Lasermotive Wins Share of the NASA Sponsored Power Beaming Challenge<\/a>, The Space Elevator Reference (with video)<\/p><p><em>\"The NASA sponsored Power Beaming Challenge, also known as the Space Elevator Games, is guaranteed to give out some prize money this year after a stellar performance by Team Lasermotive in the first day of the competition.\"<\/em><\/p><p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/84915_rs9mEPANF-c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc's note: NASA's Centennial Challenge for Power Beaming AKA the Space Elevator Games is now broadcasting live. Three teams are competing for up to $2 million in prize money. It is believed that one or more of the teams will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/live-event-nasa-sponsored-power-beaming-challenge.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}