{"id":1241,"date":"2009-07-22T14:27:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T19:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2009-07-22T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T21:24:07","slug":"the-university-of-alberta-space-elevator-racing-team-uasert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"The University of Alberta Space Elevator Racing Team (UASERT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"96\" src=\"\/media\/UniversityOfAlbertaSpaceElevatorRacingTeamLogo.jpg\"  height=\"100\" style=\"width: 96px; height: 100px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/20090722_002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/tn_20090722_002.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>The surprise entry in these Games, at least IMHO, is the team from the Universityof Alberta (UASERT).\u00a0 This is\u00a0partly my fault; there are team chats every Sunday which I used to attend.\u00a0 However I haven&#8217;t recently, but the UASERT has.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/20090722_003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/tn_20090722_003.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>They and their equipment arrived yesterday and they are now in the Hanger with the rest of us, assembling their entry.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve taken a couple of photos and included them in this post.<\/p>\n<p>The first two pictures are of the bottom side of their solar array, one shot looking downward on the array while the other shot is looking edge-on to the array.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/20090722_005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/tn_20090722_005.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>The third picture is of the steel box which holds their optics.\u00a0 Hmmm, steel, painted black, sitting out in the Mojave desert sun for several hours.\u00a0 I hope they brought asbestos gloves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re still assembling their system and hope to get out to the lakebed tomorrow for laser testing.<\/p>\n<p>One other note about this team; if you visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uasert.ca\/\">their website<\/a>, you can read both their blog (which is very interesting and gives the reader a good view of the team&#8217;s activities as it scrambled to get ready for this competition) and a number of photos.\u00a0 Good stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Click on any picture thumbnail to see a larger version)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surprise entry in these Games, at least IMHO, is the team from the Universityof Alberta (UASERT).\u00a0 This is\u00a0partly my fault; there are team chats every Sunday which I used to attend.\u00a0 However I haven&#8217;t recently, but the UASERT has. They and their equipment arrived yesterday and they are now in the Hanger with the [&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-1241","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\/1241","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=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}