{"id":1587,"date":"2013-09-28T18:52:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T23:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2013-09-28T18:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T23:52:21","slug":"if-at-first-you-dont-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"If at first you don&#8217;t succeed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_SpacePiratesNewLogo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"84\"  width=\"119\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcspacepirates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Space Pirates<\/a> are now making their fourth attempt to break the unofficial power-beaming record set by LaserMotive.\u00a0 Brian Turner, captain of the Space Pirates, gives us this update:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Recap. We have flown 3 previous times. 1 hr, 2 hrs, 5 hrs.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>First run failed because the laser aim was out of adjustment.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Second run failed when drone lost track of it&#8217;s bottom target and drifted into the wall causing crash.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> Third run failed when we moved our broadcast system and interfered with the Drone comms.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also had some &#8220;environment&#8221; issues (had to partially open some shades to create better airflow) and they think that the simple act of people walking around was causing an issue.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve pretty much stopped that now and things are very stable.<\/p>\n<p>As of this blog post, they are about 3 hours into run #4 and, if all goes well, they hope to eclipse the old mark of 12 hours and 27 minutes about 4:12am, Sunday morning, CST.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the live broadcast and participate in the chat session by going <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/brianturner\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Space Pirates are now making their fourth attempt to break the unofficial power-beaming record set by LaserMotive.\u00a0 Brian Turner, captain of the Space Pirates, gives us this update: Recap. We have flown 3 previous times. 1 hr, 2 hrs, 5 hrs. First run failed because the laser aim was out of adjustment. [&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-1587","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\/1587","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=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}