The company's lofty objective will sound familiar to followers of NASA's Centennial Challenges programme. The desired outcome is a 62,000-mile (99,779 km) tether that robotic lifters -- powered by laser beams from Earth -- can climb, ferrying cargo, satellites and eventually people into space.
(Via KurzweilAI.net.)
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Space-elevator tether climbs a mile high
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Impressive milestone.
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