{"id":693,"date":"2007-08-02T18:53:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T23:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2007-08-02T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T04:10:00","slug":"note-to-other-teams-wanna-buy-some-solar-power-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Note to other teams &#8211; wanna buy some equipment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/USSTNewLogoHiRes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"94\" src=\"\/media\/USSTNewLogo.jpg\"  height=\"95\" style=\"width: 94px; height: 95px\" \/><\/a>I received this news today from Clayton Ruszkowski, captain of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usask.ca\/groups\/usst\/\">USST Space Design Team<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230;we are putting our 1kW laser stack, highly reflective mirror and solar cells (GaAs) up for sale to the other teams. They will be posted on our new and updated website next week&#8230;if anyone is interested to contact me via my email address; <strong>usst [AT] usask.ca<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clayton has emailed me some pictures of the stuff for sale (<a href=\"\/media\/USSTLaserStack.jpg\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"\/media\/USSTHiReflectMirror.jpg\">here<\/a> &#8211; both are 1mb files).\u00a0 So, either\u00a0USST has given up or has upgraded.\u00a0 I would lay a large amount of cash on the latter.\u00a0\u00a0They are also sporting\u00a0the spiffy new logo shown on this post (click on it for a high-res version).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Clayton and I have also entered into\u00a0&#8220;serious discussions&#8221;\u00a0on what type of Canadian beer\u00a0may be brought to yours truly&#8230; \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 You know, I wonder if I could talk the German, Japanese and Spanish teams into bringing along a six-pack or two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received this news today from Clayton Ruszkowski, captain of the USST Space Design Team: &#8220;&#8230;we are putting our 1kW laser stack, highly reflective mirror and solar cells (GaAs) up for sale to the other teams. They will be posted on our new and updated website next week&#8230;if anyone is interested to contact me via [&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-693","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\/693","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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}