{"id":1644,"date":"2014-08-28T16:47:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2014-09-29T23:28:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T04:28:55","slug":"spec-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1644","title":{"rendered":"SPEC 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year, the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA)<\/a> holds a Climber competition acronymed SPEC and each year they get more and more ambitious in their goals.\u00a0 This year for instanace, they had a 1,200 m long tether held up by balloons.\u00a0 Climbers are powered by batteries and scores are awarded based on speed, payload, etc.<\/p>\n

The competition was held this past August 6th through the 9th, but they have not posted results or pictures yet.\u00a0 Several people from the JSEA, including JSEA President Shuichi Ohno, attended the just-completed ISEC Space Elevator Conference and they brought a verbal summary as well as a video they created, summarizing the competition.\u00a0 As soon as that is posted, I’ll link to it here.\u00a0 There is a very scant summary of the competition here<\/a> (note, this website is in all Japanese – if you need it translated, open it with Google Chrome).<\/p>\n

Of note, one JSEA’s major purposes in attending the ISEC Space Elevator Conference<\/a> was to begin the effort to turn this into an international competition.\u00a0 While this competition is held in Japan each year, only once or twice has something similar happened in Europe and, since the ending of the NASA\/Spaceward Space Elevator Games<\/a>, nothing like this has happened in the US.<\/p>\n

There were a lot of people interested in this concept and a lot of discussion followed.\u00a0 The bottom line is that there appears to be enough enthusiasm here to support these Games, but a ‘champion’ must be found – someone willing to take on the considerable organizing challenge this represents.\u00a0 If you are interested in heading this up or assisting in any way, please contact ISEC President Dr. Peter Swan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each year, the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA) holds a Climber competition acronymed SPEC and each year they get more and more ambitious in their goals.\u00a0 This year for instanace, they had a 1,200 m long tether held up by balloons.\u00a0 Climbers are powered by batteries and scores are awarded based on speed, payload, etc. […]<\/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-1644","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\/1644","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=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}