Six teams are now qualified for the Climber Competition.  They are the Kansas City Space Pirates, TurboCrawler, LiteWon, Snowstar, MClimber and USST.  More may make it tonight.

Below are some more pictures of today’s qualifying efforts.  As always, click on the thumbnail to view a larger version.

The crane holding the Test tether.

SpaceMiners voltaic cell array (including 4 cells that burned out during the initial qualification try and are now in the process of being replaced).

Two members of the SpaceMiners team with their Climber’s voltaic cell array.  On the left is Mark Rice and on the right is Paul Polanovich.

Punkworks has yet to attempt a qualification run, but they are nearly ready to try one tonight.  Below are a couple of thumbnails of Punkworks Team Members.  Click on the thumbnails to view a larger version of the picture.

Kevin Estrabillo showing that famous exuberant enthusiasm that Canadians are famous for 🙂

Allen Atamer, Aman Dhanoa and another Punkworks team-member (I’ll get the name and then update this) discussing strategy.

Here are some pictures from today taken at the Las Cruces International Airport, where the actual competition is going to be held.  There is a lot of last minute being done, but it is coming together.  With all of the picture thumbnails, click on them to get a larger version.

The crane which will be used to hoist the 50 meter (165 feet) tether which will be the “race track” for the Climber competition.

Another view of the Competition Crane.

T-shirt worn by one of the Crane crew members.

Billboard / Welcoming sign for the Space Elevator Games.