{"id":833,"date":"2007-10-21T23:34:44","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T04:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2007-10-21T23:34:44","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T04:34:44","slug":"2007-space-elevator-games-entry-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"2007 Space Elevator Games – (Entry 65)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The future is on hold…<\/p>\n

USST ran tonight, but their system performed pretty poorly – nowhere near their expectations.\u00a0 They were actually stopped before they got to the top, but a knot was found in the belay line and this prevented them from fully ascending.\u00a0 Obviously this needs to be taken care of before tomorrow.\u00a0 But even if the knot had not been there, the slowness of the climb would have prevented it from being considered for Prize Money.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a>Clayton Ruszkowski, captain of USST, told me that they have figured out what the problem is and it will be corrected by tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The top picture is of their Climber as it’s being wheeled out to the Launch pad.\u00a0 The bottom, left picture is of the laser, taken with my camera on a “Night” (infrared) setting.\u00a0 I don’t know what the extra beams are – perhaps just optical artifacts from the camera.\u00a0 The picture on the bottom, right, is another infrared shot of the lit-up climber as it nears the top of the ribbon.\u00a0 It’s overexposed, but it’s the best my poor camcorder can do.\u00a0 To be able to see the laser in infrared through the camera’s viewfinder (but not with the naked eye) is just way cool…<\/p>\n

The Kansas City Space Pirates look like they will have reconstructed their climber by tomorrow morning\u00a0and the Technology Tycoons have rented some spotlights to give their climber an extra boost.<\/p>\n

So, hopefully we’ll have three real competitors tomorrow.\u00a0 The all-hands meeting is at 9:00am and the running schedule will be set then.\u00a0 The weather is supposed to be great, so let’s keep our fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

More tomorrow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The future is on hold… USST ran tonight, but their system performed pretty poorly – nowhere near their expectations.\u00a0 They were actually stopped before they got to the top, but a knot was found in the belay line and this prevented them from fully ascending.\u00a0 Obviously this needs to be taken care of before tomorrow.\u00a0 […]<\/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-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}