{"id":1031,"date":"2008-06-26T23:03:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T04:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2008-06-26T23:03:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T04:03:18","slug":"planetary-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Planetary defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the &#8216;no-brainer&#8217; applications for a Space Elevator is the ability to quickly launch large quantities of &#8216;stuff&#8221; into orbit and beyond, &#8216;stuff&#8217; that may be needed to change the orbit\u00a0or destroy an asteroid headed our way.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we need to be able to see these little &#8216;cosmic challenges&#8217; before we can do anything about them.\u00a0 And that makes <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceref.com\/news\/viewpr.rss.html?pid=25792\">this article<\/a> interesting;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p zVpDL=\"2\" _rCEO=\"0\" class=\"alignleft\"><em>&#8220;Canada is building the world&#8217;s first space <\/em><a zVpDL=\"0\" _rCEO=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telescopes.com\/\"><em>telescope<\/em><\/a><em> designed to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites. Called NEOSSat (Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite), this spacecraft will provide a significant improvement in surveillance of asteroids that pose a collision hazard with Earth and innovative technologies for tracking satellites in orbit high above our planet.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p zVpDL=\"2\" _rCEO=\"0\" class=\"alignleft\">The article goes on to say that they are expecting to launch this satellite in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the &#8216;no-brainer&#8217; applications for a Space Elevator is the ability to quickly launch large quantities of &#8216;stuff&#8221; into orbit and beyond, &#8216;stuff&#8217; that may be needed to change the orbit\u00a0or destroy an asteroid headed our way. Of course, we need to be able to see these little &#8216;cosmic challenges&#8217; before we can do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","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=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}