The Space Elevator Blog discusses Solar Lasers. A new post from Beam Power competitor Andromeda Connection clears up the questions.
The Space Elevator Blog also discusses an article on the University of Alberta team.
Update: The latest post is on another "Meet the Team" entry at LaserMotive.
prizes to inspire space technology achievements
Space, Prize Twitter Accounts
- prize twitter links, recent tweets
- other space tweets (side panel)
- NASA Prize Winners - Comstock
- Lunabotics Teams
- Space Elevator Games
- Lunar Lander Challenge - XPF
- Regolith Excavation Challenge
- Google Lunar X PRIZE
- X PRIZE Foundation Space
- X PRIZE Foundation Other
- N-Prize
- More Prizes
- Commercial Space
- NASA
- Space Media
- General
- Digital Globes, Remote Sensing
- Progressive Automotive X PRIZE
Just a Reflection
Space Prizes
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- The Launch Pad (XPF Space)
- Google Lunar X PRIZE
- Ansari X PRIZE Contestants
- Arkyd CubeSat Challenge
- High Altitude Astrobiology Challenge
- X PRIZE Cup
- Heinlein Prize
- NASA Centennial Challenges
- NASA Innocentive Pavilion
- The Carmack 100kft Micro Prize
- XCOR Flight Prize
- Space Florida SS2 Microgravity
- SunSat Design Competition
- CATS Prize (not won)
- Moon is Me Lunar Mining
- Mars ISRU Prize (in dvlpmnt)
- Planetary Society Asteroid prize
- Planetary Society Contests
- America's Space Prize
- Mission Ideas Contest
- N-Prize (Nanosat)
- FAA Space Access (in dvlpmnt)
- Florida RLV Prize (in devlpmnt)
- Commercial Space Wiki
- NASA Tournament Lab
- Google Earth KML Contest
- Model Your Town
- MiniSpaceWorld
- Pathfinder Innovation Challenge
- Astronaut Glove Challenge
- MoonROx Challenge
Student Space Prizes
- Competitions (OSGC Blog)
- Essay Contests (OSGC Blog)
- Teaching with Contests
- Minority Innovation Challenges
- FameLab Astrobiology
- Spacelab Competition
- SCAG Space Entrepreneurs
- SCAG Zero-G Aerobatics
- Skybox Out-of-the-Box Sat Images
- eXploration Habitat Challenge
- SpaceTech Engineering Design
- Mars Education Challenge
- NASA MAKE Challenge
- Suborbital Researchers Contest
- Caltech Space Challenge
- NASA Waste Limitation Mgmt
- SEDS HIgh Power Rocketry
- SEDS Video Ad Contest
- AIAA Deep Space Hab
- AIAA Commercial ETO Plan
- Experimental Sounding Rocket
- DIME & WING (Drop Tower)
- BalloonSat
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- Kids In Micro-g
- Move an Asteroid
- Optimus Prime Spinoff
- No Boundaries
- ASCE Earth and Space 2010
- Thacher Contest
- Geospatial Skills Contest
- Moonbots
- Microgravity Competition
- Rice Business Plan Prizes
- 8C Business Plan Competition
- RASC-AL Robo-Ops
- Top Stars (Hubble in Education)
- ASME Design Competition
- Spaceport America Competition?
- Canadian Sat Design Challenge
- UK Our Space Competition
- Mars Society Rover Challenge
- What If?
- NASA Aeronautics contest
- CanSat Competition
- LEEM Cansat Competition
- Cansat France
- REXUS BEXUS
- Lunabotics
- Lunar Outpost Competition
- TSGC Design Challenge
- Pete Conrad Awards
- NASA Means Business
- UKAYRoC
- Team America Rocketry
- Student Launch Initiative
- University SLI
- ESA Lunar Robotics Challenge
- ESA SUCCESS Competition
- ESA Essay Contest
- Flight into the Future
- Great Moonbuggy Race
- Google Science Fair
Scholarship Competitions
Space Art Prizes
- Moon and Me K-12 Art Challenge
- NanoSail-D Photo Contest
- Yuri's Night Video Contest
- NASA Earth Day Video Contest
- MiniSpaceWorld
- Catch a Star!
- Garriott Student Patch Contest
- NASA Future of Flight Art Contest
- Mars Society Poster Contest
- National Space Society Art Prize
- NSS Banner Contest
- SEDS Space Art Contest
Lunar X PRIZE Sites & Teams
- Google Lunar X PRIZE
- Registered Teams
- GLXP in Google Earth
- Angelicum Chile
- ARCA
- Astrobotic Tech
- Barcelona Moon Team
- EuroLuna
- Team FREDNET
- Independence-X
- Team Indus
- Team Italia
- JURBAN
- LunaTrex
- Moon Express
- Next Giant Leap
- Odyssey Moon
- Omega Envoy
- Part Time Scientists
- Penn State Lunar Lion
- Team Phoenicia
- Team Plan B
- Puli Space
- Rocket City Space Pioneers
- Selenokhod
- Team Space IL
- SpaceMETA
- STELLAR
- SYNERGY MOON
- White Label Space
NG Lunar Lander Sites & Teams
NanoSat Launch Sites and Teams
Sample Return Sites and Teams
Night Rover Sites and Teams
Regolith Sites & Teams
Space Elevator Sites & Teams
Space News
Politics
Civil Aviation Prizes
Military Prizes
Unmanned Vehicle Student Prizes
Health/Medicine Prizes
Energy/Environment Prizes
- Progressive Automotive X PRIZE
- Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE
- PacX Ocean Robot Data Challenge
- Prize Capital
- Green Flight Challenge
- Earth and Space Awards
- Bill with Hybrid Electric Prize
- DOE Lighting Prize
- Saltire Marine Energy Prize
- Virgin Earth Challenge
- KPBC Prize for Green Innovation
- H-Prize (Hydrogen)
- Climate Leadership Challenge
- MIT Clean Energy Prize
- MIT MADMEC
- Environment Contest List
Human Power Prizes
Other Prizes
Occasional Prize Posts
Open Innovation
Papers
- McKinsey & Company report
- Prizes for Tech Innovation
- Federal Eng/Science Prizes
- (Dis)advantages of NASA Prizes
- African Agriculture Prizes
- Reward contracting
- How effective are prizes?
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- Perfecting Patent Prizes
- Patents vs ex-post rewards
- Climate change tech prizes
- Inducement prize admin
- prizes, patents, and buyouts
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