Meet the Team: Steve Burrows

Written by Tom Nugent on Sunday, August 5th, 2007

I’d like to introduce the various team members at LaserMotive, so I’ll be doing a regular set of blog posts to briefly talk about people on the team. I’m going to start with the first person to join the team: Steve Burrows.

Steve is the co-owner of Twintec. He and his brother make a variety of specialty tubing connectors, used in things such as hydraulic systems. Any time we need something machined, we go bug Steve. Almost as critical is the fact that Twintec is letting us share their workshop, giving us room to work and test.

I met Steve via the LiftPort forums a few years ago, and knew of his interest in the space elevator and the fact that he co-owned a well-equipped machine shop. When Jordin and I first decided to form a team to pursue the Elevator:2010 Power Beaming competition, we contacted Steve to see if he would be interested. We’re grateful that he was interested, because Steve and his brother Chris have contributed so much to the team.

In addition to his machining experience, Steve used to work with printing presses. That kind of experience is directly applicable to climbing ribbons. Steve (and Chris) have helped design and fabricate not only the vehicle, but also many other mechanical structures for our optics, testing structure, etc.

That’s probably enough of an introduction for now. If you want to know different kinds of information about team members, let me know and I’ll try to craft future “Meet the Team” posts appropriately.