I use an RSS reader (FeedDemon) to try and keep up with all of the websites I follow. Occasionally I have a problem with it and it causes me to miss some postings from some sites. Evidently, this is what happened with the feed from the McGill Space Elevator Team site because they’ve been posting fairly frequently and I haven’t been paying attention. If I hadn’t seen an entry about this team on Ray’s Space Prizes blog, I might have neglected them for a while longer…
Sorry guys…
Anyway, they have several progress entries up on their blog, from making the decision to switch from Microwave power to Laser power to a redesign of their climber to the testing that they are doing. Their latest post reads:
“We will start climber testing around mid October on a 20m wire suspended from a staircase. Instead of using the laser outside, we plan on using 1 to 3 theatre spotlights to do some smaller climbs and more debugging.”
The last posting I put up about their team was last March, here. Their site’s home page is here and their blog home is here. Check them out – it looks like they’re moving right along…