Getting a few hits today from people looking for Space Elevator news from Las Cruces. Not a lot to tell, except that the tether and crawler competitions didn’t amount to much: "Saturday’s Space Elevator Games…showed that they are still a long way off."
Ted Semon has the latest:
"The Tether Challenge ended just about a half-hour ago and NASA’s Prize money for the Tether Challenge is safe for another year."
Alas.
UPDATE It wasn’t all a bust. The crawler of the University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team (USST) made the fastest ascent (just not quite fast enough) and is expected to do better next year.
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