Welcome to LaserMotive...

LaserMotive is a Seattle-based company developing laser power beaming systems to transmit electricity without wires, for applications where wires are either cost prohibitive or physically impractical. We launched the company by winning the 2009 NASA Power Beaming Challenge and taking home the $900,000 prize. We are now working for NASA to design the architecture to use lasers to launch rockets and power satellites, and, eventually, power a lunar base.

We founded LaserMotive on our belief in laser power beaming as a “powerful” solution for a variety of applications, near-term and in the future, on Earth, and, especially, in space. Recent advances in commercial laser technology are bringing many exciting applications within the reach of economic and technical viability, from powering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in flight to launching rockets via laser power to beaming limitless solar energy from space to the Earth. The Power Beaming Challenge, followed by a record-setting flight of a UAV for 150 times battery life, have been excellent initial steps along LaserMotive’s path to realizing the physical and economic viability of laser power beaming.