{"id":1258,"date":"2009-08-13T13:46:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T18:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2009-08-13T13:46:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T18:46:44","slug":"space-elevator-conferece-first-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Space Elevator Conferece &#8211; First Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all here and more or less awake.\u00a0 Several sessions have already been completed.\u00a0 I just finished listening to Karen Ghazaryan presenting on &#8220;<em>Dynamics of a compound elastic cable for the Space Elevator<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 Karen came here all the way from Armenia to present his paper.\u00a0 His paper sparked a lot of interest and a lot of questions &#8211; the most so far.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m listening to Ben Shelef present his paper &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\/documents\/papers\/The%20Space%20Elevator%20Feasibility%20Condition.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Space Elevator Feasibility Condition<\/em><\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve written before that I think this is one of the most important papers released in the Space Elevator field in the last year or two and anyone who wants to see how strong a tether has to be and how realistic a Space Elevator is needs to understand this document.\u00a0 Ben&#8217;s pessimistic (but not totally gloomy) viewpoint is sure to spark a lot of questions afterwards too.<\/p>\n<p>Good stuff so far today and I expect it to continue.<\/p>\n<p>One note on the Strong Tether competition; there is only going to be one competitor this year, and yes, they have brought a carbon nanotube tether.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a new team, from Japan, from Shizuoka University.\u00a0 It will be very interesting to see what they have brought.\u00a0 Unfortunately (very unfortunately) the MIT\/DeltaX team which competed in the last Tether competition will not be here this year.\u00a0 But we still will have a competition &#8211; the Japanese tether against the house tether.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all here and more or less awake.\u00a0 Several sessions have already been completed.\u00a0 I just finished listening to Karen Ghazaryan presenting on &#8220;Dynamics of a compound elastic cable for the Space Elevator&#8220;.\u00a0 Karen came here all the way from Armenia to present his paper.\u00a0 His paper sparked a lot of interest and a lot [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","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\/1258","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=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}