{"id":1309,"date":"2009-11-03T17:42:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T22:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2009-11-03T17:42:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T22:42:46","slug":"dry-run-so-far-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Dry run; so far, so good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some wind issues cropped up during the first helicopter flight necessitating a &#8216;re-thinking&#8217; of some of the flight procedures.\u00a0 Once those were ironed out, the helicopter ascended again and\u00a0we were able to see a battery-powered climb (using the KC Space Pirates) climber all the way to the top, and with a successful descent and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter was getting a bit low on fuel, so it is being refueled and will then bring the cable aloft again.\u00a0 LaserMotive is next up to do a battery powered climb and then USST.<\/p>\n<p>If you go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/Space-elevator2\">http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/Space-elevator2<\/a>, you can watch the action live.\u00a0 You can also log into the chat (if you have a Twitter account) and ask questions &#8211; I&#8217;ll be moderating this.\u00a0 I also have a mike and will try some commentary too.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, you can get up-to-the minute status comments\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/segames\">www.twitter.com\/segames<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to jinx anything, but all is looking very good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some wind issues cropped up during the first helicopter flight necessitating a &#8216;re-thinking&#8217; of some of the flight procedures.\u00a0 Once those were ironed out, the helicopter ascended again and\u00a0we were able to see a battery-powered climb (using the KC Space Pirates) climber all the way to the top, and with a successful descent and recovery. [&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-1309","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\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}