Laser space elevators battle in desert
LASER-powered elevators are being tested in the Mojave Desert this week as part of a new space race. The Space Elevator Games are a NASA-backed competition to find the best way to send a robotic platform into space while still tethered to the Earth. Each competitor uses a strong laser – or "power beam" – to send energy to a solar panel on the elevator platform, giving it enough juice to climb a 1km cable. The challenge is for the platform to climb the cable, stretched...

Elevator to Space? They're Really Trying: PHOTO
EDWARDS Air Force BASE, Calif. - Rocketing off to space? Some think an elevator might be the way to go. The so-called space elevator is the future goal of this week's $2 million Space Elevator Games in the Mojave Desert. In a major test of the concept, robotic machines powered by laser beams will try to climb a cable suspended from a helicopter hovering more than a half-mile (one kilometer) high at Edwards Air Force Base. Several teams have qualified to participate in the event beginning...

Elevator to Space? They're Really Trying: PHOTO
EDWARDS Air Force BASE, Calif. - Rocketing off to space? Some think an elevator might be the way to go. The so-called space elevator is the future goal of this week's $2 million Space Elevator Games in the Mojave Desert. In a major test of the concept, robotic machines powered by laser beams will try to climb a cable suspended from a helicopter hovering more than a half-mile (one kilometer) high at Edwards Air Force Base. Several teams have qualified to participate in the event beginning...

Elevator to Space? They're Really Trying: PHOTO
Edwards Air Force Base (myFOXla.com) - Rocketing off to space? Some think an elevator might be the way to go. The so-called space elevator is the future goal of this week's $2 million Space Elevator Games in the Mojave Desert. In a major test of the concept, robotic machines powered by laser beams will try to climb a cable suspended from a helicopter hovering more than a half-mile (one kilometer) high at Edwards Air Force Base. Several teams have qualified to participate in the event beginning...

Elevator to space? They're really trying
EDWARDS Air Force BASE, Calif. -- Rocketing off to space? Some think an elevator might be the way to go. The so-called space elevator is the future goal of this week's $2 million Space Elevator Games in the Mojave Desert. In a major test of the concept, robotic machines powered by laser beams will try to climb a cable suspended from a helicopter hovering more than a half-mile (one kilometer) high at Edwards Air Force Base.

Elevator to space? They're really trying
EDWARDS Air Force BASE, Calif. (AP)

Reach For The Sky, Space Elevator Race Rises Up In U.S.
November 4, 2009 Washington (dbTechno) - The space elevator race is on yet again as the competition has those taking part truly reaching for the sky. The competition has launched in the Mojave Desert and has teams trying to basically come up with a way to build an elevator that will take you to space. As whacked-out as that sounds, it is actually true, and is something that could be a reality. The Space Elevator Games will have scientists using roobots to climb miles upon miles into the sky....

Avenger of the Skies: New Wave of Drones Takes Off
In the heat of California's Mojave Desert they are testing one of the most important weapons of the future. Technicians and engineers are poring over the Avenger, the first of a new generation of drones

Army turns to solar for mission power and more
The U.S. Army, joining the push to turn Mojave Desert sunshine into electricity, plans to blanket as much as 21 square miles at Fort Irwin with solar mirrors and panels. TV: ABC gambling Visitors will be welcomed By ROB OWEN, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette If you are of a certain age -- in your 30s or maybe early 40s -- odds are good you'll remember "V," NBC's 1980s sci-fi saga about aliens who come to Earth promising peace but turn out to be lizards in disguise keen on making humanity their food...

Masten Space Systems takes lead in Lunar Lander Challenge
On Friday, only days after NASA tested its next big-ticket rocket, a ragtag group of space junkies in the Mojave Desert flew a bargain-basement rocket ship that could be the real future of spaceflight in the 21st century. Masten Space Systems sent its 10-foot-tall Xoie (pronounced Zoey) rocket soaring over a patch of scrub Desert that stood in for The Moon, a move that appeared to vault the company into the lead in the $2-million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge .

NASA Doesn't Suck… It Rocks!!!: VIDEO
NASA Doesn't Suck… It Rocks!!! NASA! I totally take back what I said about you not knowing your ass from your elbow the other day. That was awesome! The EXPLOSION! The FIRE! The way that huge-ass rocket just BLASTED off into space! Cowabunga ! And that sweet, backward-looking rocket-cam you put on there, that was a nice touch. No hard feelings, I hope. (P.S. Do you think you can start working on the flying laser hockey bears now?) — Dave Bry Published at 2:43 pm , Wednesday, Oct...

Gamma rays from "star factories" in galaxies other than Milky Way detected
Washington, November 3 (ANI): NASA's Fermi telescope has detected gamma rays from "star factories" in other galaxies.

NASA Rocket Scientists Did 'Frickin' Fantastic': VIDEO
Nothing gets the NASA boys fired up quite like a rocket launch. The Ares I-X rocket, a modified prototype of the Ares I rocket that may send humans back to The Moon, and the 2.6 million pounds of thrust it put out, sent the engineers at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral into paroxysms of joy. “You all did frickin’ fantastic,” said Ed Mango, the new launch director at Kennedy, shortly before having his tie cut just above the navel by the director of Kennedy, Bill Parsons....

Sony Vaio Nebula FW Series goes all -spacy' for $810: PHOTO
Sony have tried a new theme this time round with the Nebula FW Series of their popular Vaio line of notebooks. They've plunged into the world of stars and galaxies and space and everything that NASA makes visible. Well, with all the good looks, this 16.4 inch display also gets you a Blu-ray player, Dolby surround, Windows 7 and a 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo processor. $810 is a pretty good price to get the Sony Vaio Nebula FW laptop for. Rest assured on the brand and the faith you have on it. [...

Robbie Williams - Williams Launches Iphone Application: PHOTO
British singer Robbie Williams has launched a new iPhone application which allows fans to experience his BODIES video shoot - virtually speeding through the Desert on motorbikes. The Angels hitmaker has teamed up with Apple to develop Robbie Williams Racing and the star also lends his voice to the game. iPhone or iPod Touch users can challenge Williams to a race across the Mojave Desert in California, which featured in his Bodies promo. Fans can also listen to tracks from his forthcoming album...

Veterans Fight to Keep Mojave Cross Up (Video)
It's known as the "Mojave Cross," and the Supreme Court, whose new term just began, will hear a case on it.

NASA's Kepler mission : NASA's planet hunting mission delayed due to electronic glitch
NASA’s Kepler mission, which would search for planets around other stars, is unlikely to detect any Earth-like exoplanets before 2011 due to an electronic glitch. According to a report in Nature News, the delays are caused by noisy amplifiers in the telescope’s electronics. The team is racing to fix the issue by changing the way data from the telescope is processed, but the delay could mean that ground-based observers now have the upper hand in the race to be the first to spot an...

Latest Mercury Pics Reveal Massive Craters & Possible Volcanic Vents: PHOTO
When NASA’s Messenger space probe swung past Mercury on September 29, it snapped this picture of the innermost planet’s barren and strange landscape. The $446 million probe’s third flyby brought it within 142 miles (228 km) of Mercury’s surface to cover more uncharted terrain, leaving 98 percent of the planet now mapped [ SPACE.com ]. The images taken and the data recorded during the flyby are the last that will be acquired until Messenger finally slips into orbit around...