{"id":1097,"date":"2008-10-13T16:12:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T21:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2008-10-13T16:12:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T21:12:44","slug":"updates-from-the-national-space-society-nss-space-elevator-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"Updates from the National Space Society (NSS) Space Elevator team"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve received two updates from Bert Murray, captain of the NSS Space Elevator team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first is about a BBC TV show<\/a> that their climber was featured on.\u00a0 The show series is “James May Big Idea: Power to the People<\/em>“.\u00a0 I had blogged<\/a> about the making of this\u00a0show, before, in April – and it’s finally made it to the small screen.\u00a0 Unfortunately, you can only see it if you are a UK resident.\u00a0 If you are, drop me a line \/ comment to let me know what it looked like (or send me the YouTube link \ud83d\ude42 ).<\/p>\n

From the show notes:<\/p>\n

Continuing his journey to the US, James encounters a group of dedicated aerospace engineers who are planning to make a lift that will reach 20,000 miles into the skies. Their idea is to build a power station in space. James watches enthralled as they take their first tentative steps towards their goal – and a crack at a $2million [\u00a31million] prize.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Their second item concerns recent laser testing they have done.\u00a0 Hot on the heels of the KC Space Pirates announcing<\/a> that they were successfully able to beam useful power for a full kilometer, NSS announces that they, too, can do this:<\/p>\n

“The NSS Team has completed four Laser tests with Trumpf. The last test was long range and outside shooting over 1Km. Attached is an IR photo of powering a “test array” from 1000 meters.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can view the picture online<\/a> or click on the thumbnail for the full-size version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve received two updates from Bert Murray, captain of the NSS Space Elevator team. The first is about a BBC TV show that their climber was featured on.\u00a0 The show series is “James May Big Idea: Power to the People“.\u00a0 I had blogged about the making of this\u00a0show, before, in April – and it’s finally […]<\/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-1097","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\/1097","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=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}