THIS is what I came to see.<\/p>\n
USST made a total of 5 runs.\u00a0 All were spectacular.\u00a0 None, unfortunately, were fast enough to claim the prize.\u00a0 Their fastest run was 54 seconds.\u00a0 We’re not sure exactly how quick that was as we need to measure the ribbon.\u00a0 This will be done tomorrow.\u00a0 But we’re sure that the ribbon was not 108 meters, and therefore there was no way they could have met the 2 m\/s requirement.<\/p>\n
But the runs were spectacular.\u00a0 They actually picked up speed in a few runs the higher they climbed.\u00a0 It looks like they have some work to do on their tracking software, but I’m sure they’re going to be taking care of that.<\/p>\n
So, unfortunately, the results were like last year – USST was just a few seconds too slow to claim the prize.\u00a0 But they greatly increased their speed over last year (approximately double) and are fulfilling NASA’s and Spaceward’s goal of advancing the state of the art.<\/p>\n
Laser-powered climbs and carbon nanotube tethers were at the 2007 Space Elevator Games – how cool is that!!??!!<\/p>\n
I don’t know how much blogging I’ll be doing over the next few days.\u00a0 I’m off to\u00a0the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary – to fulfill a long-held ambition of mine.\u00a0 If I have any time, I’ll upload some of the videos and link to them.\u00a0 But I may not be able to blog again until I’m home on the weekend.<\/p>\n
Either way, I’ll be sure and post the rest of the footage I’ve taken.<\/p>\n
Thanks for reading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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