{"id":1248,"date":"2009-07-30T13:42:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T18:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2009-07-30T13:42:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T18:42:40","slug":"climber-power-beaming-competition-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"Climber \/ Power-Beaming competition delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1247\" target=\"_blank\">posted a story<\/a> about how a component of the &#8216;cable assembly&#8217; system pulled apart and aborted a portion of the testing  for the Climber \/ Power-Beaming competition of the Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 This issue has caused a delay in the scheduling of this Competition.\u00a0 We at Spaceward (I say &#8220;we&#8221; because, in addition to maintaining this blog, I&#8217;m also a volunteer with Spaceward) are working with the people at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/dryden\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">NASA-Dryden<\/a> to address this issue.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to say how long this delay will be, but it&#8217;s safe to say that the competition is postponed until at least September, perhaps October.\u00a0 Stay tuned to this blog or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorgames.org\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a> of the Space Elevator Games for more information.<\/p>\n<p>The other competition in the Space Elevator Games, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\/elevator2010-ts\" target=\"_blank\">Strong Tether Challenge<\/a>, is going to be held as planned, on Friday, August 14th, at the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorconference.org\" target=\"_blank\">Space Elevator Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I posted a story about how a component of the &#8216;cable assembly&#8217; system pulled apart and aborted a portion of the testing for the Climber \/ Power-Beaming competition of the Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 This issue has caused a delay in the scheduling of this Competition.\u00a0 We at Spaceward (I say &#8220;we&#8221; because, in [&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-1248","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\/1248","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=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}