{"id":1480,"date":"2011-05-11T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T06:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:29:10","slug":"new-items-from-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"New items from Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of new Space Elevator items from Japan are in the news.<\/p>\n

First is a pre-announcement of LASER2011, the annual student competition held by the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA)<\/a>.\u00a0 This is the third (or fourth?) such competition.\u00a0 No exact date has been set, but JSEA states that it will be at “the end of October”.\u00a0 Details can be found here<\/a> (note that this page is in Japanese – you can open the page in Google Chrome and translate it to English).<\/p>\n

The second item is a video I found titled “Spinning Carbon Nanotubes for the Space Elevator and Industrial Applications<\/em>“.\u00a0 This appears to be narrated by Professor Yoku Inoue – team lead for a competitor in the 2009 Strong Tether Competition (I blogged about his entry here<\/a>).\u00a0 Professor Inoue and his team hailed from Shizuoka university in Japan.\u00a0 Professor Inoue has been invited to compete again this year, and I sincerely hope he does.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nMb1s2hT7lo<\/p>\n

Update: This video is no longer available \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

What’s interesting here (to me anyway) is that the CNT’s are being pulled out\/off of the CNT ‘forest’ in a wide array.\u00a0 It’s nearly transparent as you can see.\u00a0 When I watched CNT’s being pulled out\/off a CNT ‘forest’ at the University of Cincinnati labs, they pulled them off as a very thin thread – traveling from one of the ‘forest’ and back again.\u00a0 In both cases, it is just the Van der Walls force that is holding the CNTs together…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of new Space Elevator items from Japan are in the news. First is a pre-announcement of LASER2011, the annual student competition held by the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA).\u00a0 This is the third (or fourth?) such competition.\u00a0 No exact date has been set, but JSEA states that it will be at “the end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","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=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}