{"id":1033,"date":"2008-06-29T00:05:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T05:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2008-06-30T20:40:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T01:40:47","slug":"so-far-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"So far, so good&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this year&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\">Space Elevator Games<\/a>, a\u00a0round, steel cable is replacing the\u00a0belt\/tether &#8216;racetrack&#8217; which\u00a0proved <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=842\">so problematic<\/a> last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"151\" src=\"\/media\/LaserMotiveLogo.jpg\"  height=\"56\" style=\"width: 151px; height: 56px\" \/>In the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/?p=123\">latest post<\/a> on the LaserMotive blog, we see a video of the LaserMotive drive system zipping through a bunch of cable like that in this year&#8217;s competition.\u00a0 The &#8216;interesting bits&#8217; are blocked out, so we can&#8217;t see the mechanism that is actually traversing the cable, but it&#8217;s an impressive bit of footage nonetheless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The YouTube video is below; check out the LaserMotive Blog post for the full story.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ukXa4NvV-VE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games, a\u00a0round, steel cable is replacing the\u00a0belt\/tether &#8216;racetrack&#8217; which\u00a0proved so problematic last year.\u00a0 In the latest post on the LaserMotive blog, we see a video of the LaserMotive drive system zipping through a bunch of cable like that in this year&#8217;s competition.\u00a0 The &#8216;interesting bits&#8217; are blocked out, so we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}