{"id":924,"date":"2008-02-13T03:04:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T08:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=924"},"modified":"2008-04-16T13:46:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T18:46:37","slug":"kansas-city-space-pirates-to-use-trumpf-lasers-in-2008-space-elevator-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Space Pirates to use TRUMPF Lasers in 2008 Space Elevator Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

As noted in earlier postings, both here<\/a> and on the Spaceward website<\/a>, TRUMPF<\/a> has offered to supply ‘Laser Power’ to qualifying teams for the 2008 Space Elevator Games.<\/p>\n

The Kansas City Space Pirates<\/a> have reached an agreement with TRUMPF for use of their equipment.\u00a0 Brian Turner, captain of the Space Pirates, sent out this email today to his team and supporters:<\/p>\n

Well our trip to San Jose was a success.\u00a0 After meeting with two laser\u00a0companies we are happy to announce that we have an agreement to use\u00a0the TRUMPF Trudisk 8002 industrial laser. This laser is the pinnacle\u00a0of Industrial laser power and performance. It has an output of 8\u00a0kilowatts. We are\u00a0very excited to have access to this laser.<\/em><\/p>\n

The drawback is that the color of this laser is not well matched with\u00a0the best solar cells. Our research has led us to believe we have a\u00a0solution to this issue. We are going on an expedition to Detroit next\u00a0week to test the underlying tech.<\/em><\/p>\n

The issue we are struggling with now is how to aim the laser. It’s\u00a0awesome power level requires exotic optics and\/or special tactics. It\u00a0would be no problem if we had $150,000 to throw at it. But because we\u00a0have chosen not to be full time fund raisers we are looking for more\u00a0creative solutions. This keeps with the spirit of the competition but\u00a0of course represents a possible major barrier to our success. I will\u00a0have to keep you posted on our progress in this area.<\/em><\/p>\n

Brian
\nCaptain
\nKC Space Pirates<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is MOST promising.\u00a0 Anyone who has seen the Space Pirates in action for the past two competitions know how seriously this team has to be taken.\u00a0 And now that they’ve ‘moved up’ to using Lasers, it has to be worrying to the other teams.<\/p>\n

Less than 7 months to go…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As noted in earlier postings, both here and on the Spaceward website, TRUMPF has offered to supply ‘Laser Power’ to qualifying teams for the 2008 Space Elevator Games. The Kansas City Space Pirates have reached an agreement with TRUMPF for use of their equipment.\u00a0 Brian Turner, captain of the Space Pirates, sent out this email […]<\/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-924","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\/924","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=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}