Status update; The teams are running into some wind issues.\u00a0 It’s breezy (sometimes more than breezy) out here on the tarmac (the Space Elevator Games are being held in conjunction with XPrize Cup and the venue is the Las Cruces International Airport).\u00a0 Those teams that went for ultra lightweight have built, in essence, some very big, expensive kites.\u00a0 There’s an additional wire that the teams can tether to, but of course it takes equipment to do so.\u00a0 This has slowed down Snowstar and they are temporarily grounded.\u00a0 USST was up next, but there were some lighting issues to deal with.\u00a0 Now the University of Michigan’s MClimber is scheduled to be first to actually make an attempt to climb the competition tether.\u00a0 I’ll keep you posted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Status update; The teams are running into some wind issues.\u00a0 It’s breezy (sometimes more than breezy) out here on the tarmac (the Space Elevator Games are being held in conjunction with XPrize Cup and the venue is the Las Cruces International Airport).\u00a0 Those teams that went for ultra lightweight have built, in essence, some very […]<\/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-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","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=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}