{"id":1212,"date":"2009-06-16T18:41:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T23:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2009-06-17T01:50:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T06:50:42","slug":"updates-from-lasermotive-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Updates from the LaserMotive team"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the LaserMotive Blog, a couple of new entries have been posted.<\/p>\n

The first one<\/a> has to do with cooking hot dogs.\u00a0 Now, you might reasonably ask what this would have to do with a Space Elevator or the Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 Well, if you read the post, you’ll find that high-powered lasers can do other things besides powering Climbers…<\/p>\n

The second post<\/a> has to do with stress testing, both planned and unplanned.\u00a0 It is an axiom of good system’s engineering that you can never do enough testing.\u00a0 As a veteran of many years with software systems, I can attest to the truth of this.\u00a0 But sometimes a planned test can turn into an unplanned test.\u00a0 Check out this LaserMotive post (complete with video) showing how they have been stress-testing their climber.<\/p>\n

Finally, as noted via Twitter (follow us at SEGames<\/a> for the latest updates as they happen), the LaserMotive team has arrived here at the NASA Dryden facility (where the Games will be held this year) for onsite testing.<\/p>\n

<\/a>This first photo is of the climber that they’ll be using for the tests.\u00a0 I’m told that this is “Rev 1” of the climber which will be used.\u00a0 It’s much lighter and stronger than the one they used the last time around.\u00a0 I and everyone else here will be very interested to see how it performs.\u00a0 LaserMotive is now a ‘blooded’ team and I’m sure there are many, many ‘lessons learned’ from the previous competition built into this climber.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The second photo is\u00a0a close-up of the wheels which actually grip the cable.\u00a0 These wheels come from an inline skate, ground down to the proper diameter.\u00a0 It’s tough to go to a company catalog (even from someone like McMasters) and look for “Space Elevator Climber drive wheels” – so LaserMotive (and all the other teams, of course) have to adapt parts from other devices or custom-make them.<\/p>\n

It’s part of the Challenge \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

(Click on either of the picture thumbnails for a larger version)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the LaserMotive Blog, a couple of new entries have been posted. The first one has to do with cooking hot dogs.\u00a0 Now, you might reasonably ask what this would have to do with a Space Elevator or the Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 Well, if you read the post, you’ll find that high-powered lasers can do […]<\/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-1212","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\/1212","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=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}