{"id":2059,"date":"2014-11-24T20:14:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T02:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2014-11-24T20:14:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T02:14:25","slug":"spec2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2059","title":{"rendered":"SPEC2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/media\/sidebana_jsetic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"78\" \/>Each year, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsea.jp\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA)<\/a> holds a Climber competition acronymed SPEC (SPace Elevator Challenge) and each year they get more and more ambitious in their goals.\u00a0 This year 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<p>I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1644\" target=\"_blank\">blogged about this previously<\/a>, but said that videos\/pictures\/results had not yet been posted.\u00a0 Now they have.<\/p>\n<p>This video of the competition is very well done.\u00a0 About 6 minutes and 50 seconds in, there is the rather astonishing segment of 100kg of payload for one of the climbers and then subsequently watching that climber carry it part-way up the competition tether.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;t understand Japanese, you&#8217;ll understand everything going on in the video.\u00a0 It&#8217;s in HD, so if you have a big screen monitor, flip the video into full-screen mode, crank up your speakers and enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SPEC2014 ??6??????????????\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Xk_KV38eC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The results of the competition can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsea.jp\/technology\/challenge\/000439.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (it&#8217;s in Japanese &#8211; if that&#8217;s not something you can read, open the page up in Chrome and let it auto-translate for you).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, you can see all of the results of the various Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA) SPEC (JSETEC) competitions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsea.jp\/technology\/challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (again in Japanese).<\/p>\n<p>Something I had also mentioned in the previous post on SPEC2014 was the desire by the JSEA to turn this competition into an International one.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isec.org\" target=\"_blank\">International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC)<\/a> is now trying to recruit individuals to be on a committee to help organize the &#8220;American chapter&#8221; of this competition.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re interested in participating (and, based on my participation in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\/games\" target=\"_blank\">Space Elevator Games<\/a>, I can guarantee you an exciting learning experience if you do), please contact the President of ISEC, Dr. Peter Swan at pete.swan@isec.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA) holds a Climber competition acronymed SPEC (SPace Elevator Challenge) and each year they get more and more ambitious in their goals.\u00a0 This year 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","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=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}