{"id":1469,"date":"2011-03-01T20:01:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2011-03-01T20:01:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:01:42","slug":"a-space-elevator-to-replace-the-shuttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Space Elevator to replace the shuttle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s very nice to see the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) get a mention in a non-English publication.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_LePointfr_Logo.png\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"49\"  \/>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lepoint.fr\/actu-science\/un-ascenseur-spatial-pour-remplacer-la-navette-01-03-2011-1301008_59.php\" target=\"_blank\">online article<\/a>, <em>&#8220;Un ascenseur spatial pour remplacer la navette&#8221; (A space elevator to replace the shuttle)<\/em>, we read that, according to ISEC, &#8220;&#8230;each kilogram into orbit returns to a few tens of dollars, against 20 000 for a launch with an Ariane rocket or Titan.\u00a0 This is the google translation of the original French.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure where the author got that information from &#8211; we haven&#8217;t made that promise, but perhaps there was an error in the translation.<\/p>\n<p>Also, no mention of Yuri Artsutanov or Jerome Pearson, the real intellectual fathers of the Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p>But these are minor quibbles &#8211; in general the article seemed to be well-written and did mention the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorconference.org\" target=\"_blank\">Space Elevator Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s very nice to see the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) get a mention in a non-English publication. In the online article, &#8220;Un ascenseur spatial pour remplacer la navette&#8221; (A space elevator to replace the shuttle), we read that, according to ISEC, &#8220;&#8230;each kilogram into orbit returns to a few tens of dollars, against 20 [&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-1469","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\/1469","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=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}