Daily Archives: November 13, 2007

Breaking news…

I have been corresponding with Dr. Brad Edwards who attended the recent EuroSpaceward “Space Elevator Climber and Tether Workshop”.  He sent me the following news (and I quote):

“The conference in Luxembourg went very well – including an announcement by Cambridge of 20 GPa CNT threads.”

This rocks, of course, and I am working on getting additional details.  There is nothing yet about this on the Cambridge website, but I’m assuming there will be soon.

Stay tuned…

04FEB2008 – Correction.  The best fiber strength was measured at 9 GPa, not 20 GPa as I (and others) initially reported.

The 2007 Light Racers Competition – Part 4

In this, my penultimate post in this series on the 2007 Light Racers Competition, I thought I would post some of the pictures I took of the cars and competitors.

I liked this shot of one of the racers, lit up with the spotlight as it attempted to make its run.

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This was an interesting entry, a 3-wheeler.  It was able to run through part of the racecourse, but not, unfortunately, all of it.

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Here’s a close-up of the Technology Tycoons entry.

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Both of these entries, I believe were from the same family (if this is wrong, please let me know and I’ll correct this post).

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This is the McGill team and their entry.  As I indicated in an earlier post, this entry was, by far, the fastest one in the competition.  If it had stayed on course, it would have easily won the competition…

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The Kansas City Space Kids with their winning entry.

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(As always, click on the picture thumbnails for a larger version)