VT Space Elevator Team

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• VT Space Elevator Team
• Brandon Corder, Ryan Steele, David Gillespie,
  Chris Sturgill, Meghan Gloyd, Samantha Vaillant,
  Clay Myatt, Elliotte Want
• Advisors Dr. Jack Lesko
• Goal Design a competitive prototype solar
  powered climber to compete in the 2006 Spaceward
  Foundation Elevator 2010's Annual Space Elevator
  Games
• http//www.elevator2010.org/site/competition.html

VTSET Prototype Climber
Picture from Hoffman, C. Space Elevator. Popular
Science

• Design Overview
• Develop a light-powered climbing, and un-powered
  descent system
• Develop a friction based climbing component
• Design a light-weight support structure for power
  and climbing components
• Provide an autonomous control system for the
  climber
• Integrate these features to compete in a 2006
  competition

VTSET Team pictured with Dr. Brad Edwards (Space
Elevator Expert) at the 2005 Space Elevator
Games, NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain
View, CA on October 21-23