{"id":1274,"date":"2009-09-12T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T02:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2009-09-12T21:50:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T02:50:20","slug":"quick-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"Quick update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just spoke to Ben Shelef, CEO of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceward Foundation<\/a> and the driving force behind the Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 As I indicated in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1273\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a>, Ben was coordinating another test of the Space Elevator &#8216;race course&#8217; this weekend and he tells me that everything went as well as could have been hoped for.\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t do a full-height test on the helicopter (that will be about 5,000 feet), but they did do multiple ascents \/ descents of the helicopter and steel cable raceway up to 1,000 feet.\u00a0 All went well, everything remained under control.<\/p>\n<p>This is great news and means that a second test, scheduled for sometime in the next couple of weeks can now take place.\u00a0 This will be a test of the system to it&#8217;s full, 5,000 foot height.\u00a0 If that works (and now we have great optimism that it will), then the Cliimber \/ Power-Beaming competition will be a\u00a0 &#8220;go&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I should have more details of today&#8217;s testing, including pictures, in the next day or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just spoke to Ben Shelef, CEO of the Spaceward Foundation and the driving force behind the Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 As I indicated in my previous post, Ben was coordinating another test of the Space Elevator &#8216;race course&#8217; this weekend and he tells me that everything went as well as could have been hoped for.\u00a0 [&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-1274","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\/1274","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=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}