{"id":848,"date":"2007-10-27T22:11:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T03:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2007-10-27T22:11:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T03:11:47","slug":"kansas-city-space-pirates-tuning-their-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Space Pirates tuning their mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Space Pirates used a series of mirror arrays to redirect the sunlight onto the solar cells on the bottom of their climber.\u00a0 Each of these arrays had several (8?) mirror panels.\u00a0 These mirror panels were &#8220;focus-able&#8221; as they were mounted to the array panel by supports that could be adjusted in and out.\u00a0 They adjusted the support\u00a0screws to bend the mirror slightly inward, allowing them to focus the mirror beam.\u00a0 I think the length of each mirror panel was about four feet.\u00a0 The mirror panels were made of glass and obviously couldn&#8217;t be bent too much or they would crack and\/or shatter (a fairly common occurence I was told).<\/p>\n<p>This video shows how they would &#8220;tune&#8221; the mirror arrays.\u00a0 They would reflect a light onto the side of a building &#8211; the pattern would show how focused their mirrors were.<\/p>\n<p>This video was taken on the night of October 15th.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O6s3ZqeDHB0[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Space Pirates used a series of mirror arrays to redirect the sunlight onto the solar cells on the bottom of their climber.\u00a0 Each of these arrays had several (8?) mirror panels.\u00a0 These mirror panels were &#8220;focus-able&#8221; as they were mounted to the array panel by supports that could be adjusted in and [&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-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}