{"id":774,"date":"2007-10-14T22:46:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T03:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2007-10-15T00:45:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T05:45:23","slug":"2007-space-elevator-games-14oct07-entry-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"2007 Space Elevator Games &#8211; (Entry 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/20071014\/DSC00010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/20071014\/tn_DSC00010.jpg\"  \/><\/a>Last year, the Kansas City Space Pirates had the field to themselves in using reflected sunlight to power their climber.\u00a0 This year, UBC-Snowstar is doing something similar.\u00a0 But rather than have a &#8220;mass of mirrors&#8221; (as the Space Pirates do), they are building &#8220;massive mirrors&#8221; to power their climber.<\/p>\n<p>There will be two of these monsters, each 8 feet by 16 feet.\u00a0 They will be mounted on some very sturdy pivots and swiveled to beam sunlight onto their Climber.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xblt9GT_gNI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The picture is another shot of their solar-cell-array-to-be.\u00a0 As always, click on the thumbnail to view a larger version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the Kansas City Space Pirates had the field to themselves in using reflected sunlight to power their climber.\u00a0 This year, UBC-Snowstar is doing something similar.\u00a0 But rather than have a &#8220;mass of mirrors&#8221; (as the Space Pirates do), they are building &#8220;massive mirrors&#8221; to power their climber. There will be two of these [&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-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","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=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}