{"id":1162,"date":"2009-03-19T00:21:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T06:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2009-03-19T00:25:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T06:25:38","slug":"first-test-of-the-jsea-balloon-tether-competition-track-is-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"First test of the JSEA Balloon-Tether competition track is successful"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shuichi Ohno, Chairman of the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA)<\/a> sent me an email about their first test of the Balloon-Tether system that they will be using in their upcoming Space Elevator competition (JSETEC):<\/p>\n

Last Monday,\u00a0our first balloon-tether system experiment took place in Chiba, near Tokyo.\u00a0 We used a 4.5m diameter helium balloon, 50mm seat-belt tether, battery and a climber.\u00a0 The Climber successfully climbed tether up to 40m high.\u00a0\u00a0We\u00a0have received authority to hold the competition.<\/em><\/p>\n

Next test is with many\u00a0additional pieces of\u00a0equipment ( ie. gravity tether tensioner, 3point anchor, more climbers…) and will\u00a0be held\u00a0in May.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ohno-san sent these pictures for us, too.\u00a0 Click on any of them to view a larger version.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to Ohno-san and the Japan Space Elevator Assocation!<\/p>\n

Omedetou Gozaimasu!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Shuichi Ohno, Chairman of the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA) sent me an email about their first test of the Balloon-Tether system that they will be using in their upcoming Space Elevator competition (JSETEC): Last Monday,\u00a0our first balloon-tether system experiment took place in Chiba, near Tokyo.\u00a0 We used a 4.5m diameter helium balloon, 50mm seat-belt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","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=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}