{"id":981,"date":"2008-04-14T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T05:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2008-04-16T13:47:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T18:47:18","slug":"news-from-the-kansas-city-space-pirates-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"News from the Kansas City Space Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received this email update from Brian Turner, Captain and Fearless Leader of the Kansas City Space Pirates<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“In the spring-time a pirate’s fancy turns to thoughts of… packages,\u00a0showing up via UPS. That’s right, It’s build season and while I wait\u00a0impatiently for said packages I thought I would fire off a long\u00a0overdue update.<\/em><\/p>\n

As I mentioned we are receiving and assembling parts. I am not sure\u00a0that we are still ahead of schedule but father time is not breathing\u00a0down our necks just yet. We have been a little distracted by various\u00a0things including a national television engagement that is coming up\u00a0(more on that later).<\/em><\/p>\n

Our testing in Detroit went quite well and our photo cell vendor is\u00a0working on our order. If we can get the cells to match projections in\u00a0the competition we should be able to make good on the 5 m\/s goal I set\u00a0out a few months back.<\/em><\/p>\n

We have a major new sponsor to announce. Thorlabs. They will be\u00a0providing most if not all of our optical needs. This covers one of the\u00a0major expenses we were facing so I am exceptionally excited about this\u00a0one. We also have a major automation vendor in the works for\u00a0sponsorship, but it is not quite in the bag yet, so I will leave that\u00a0announcement for later.<\/em><\/p>\n

We also have added an expert machinist to the team. This in an\u00a0important step for the precision machining needed to make the optical\u00a0actuators needed to aim the laser.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

As this team has well-proven in the past two competitions, they are a serious threat to win it all – I’m going to be very interested to see how their foray into laser-power turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received this email update from Brian Turner, Captain and Fearless Leader of the Kansas City Space Pirates: “In the spring-time a pirate’s fancy turns to thoughts of… packages,\u00a0showing up via UPS. That’s right, It’s build season and while I wait\u00a0impatiently for said packages I thought I would fire off a long\u00a0overdue update. As I […]<\/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-981","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\/981","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=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}