{"id":1089,"date":"2008-10-01T15:46:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T20:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2008-10-01T15:46:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T20:46:40","slug":"blog-updates-from-the-mcgill-space-elevator-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Blog updates from the McGill Space Elevator Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/McGillSpaceElevatorTeamLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_McGillSpaceElevatorTeamLogo.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>I use an RSS reader (FeedDemon) to try and keep up with all of the websites I follow.\u00a0 Occasionally I have a problem with it and it causes me to miss some postings from some sites.\u00a0 Evidently, this is what happened with the feed from the McGill Space Elevator Team site because they&#8217;ve been posting fairly frequently and I haven&#8217;t been paying attention.\u00a0 If I hadn&#8217;t seen an entry about this team on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/spaceprizes.blogspot.com\/\">Ray&#8217;s Space Prizes blog<\/a>, I might have neglected them for a while longer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sorry guys&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 Their latest post reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We will start climber testing around mid October on a 20m wire suspended from a staircase.\u00a0 Instead of using the laser outside, we plan on using 1 to 3 theatre spotlights to do some smaller climbs and more debugging.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last posting I put up\u00a0about their team was last March, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=944\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Their site&#8217;s home page is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/space-elevator.mcgill.ca\/\">here<\/a> and their blog home is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/space-elevator.mcgill.ca\/news_media\/sphpblog\/index.php\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Check them out &#8211; it looks like they&#8217;re moving right along&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use an RSS reader (FeedDemon) to try and keep up with all of the websites I follow.\u00a0 Occasionally I have a problem with it and it causes me to miss some postings from some sites.\u00a0 Evidently, this is what happened with the feed from the McGill Space Elevator Team site because they&#8217;ve been posting [&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-1089","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\/1089","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=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}