{"id":1633,"date":"2014-08-23T15:52:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T20:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2014-09-30T00:06:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T05:06:20","slug":"road-to-space-elevator-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1633","title":{"rendered":"Road to Space Elevator Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2014SEC\/Saturday\/IMG_5060F.jpg\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/2014SEC\/Saturday\/tn_IMG_5060F.jpg\" class=\"alignright\"  \/><\/a>This afternoon&#8217;s presentations started with Akira Tsuchida talking about a new IAA study; &#8220;Road to Space Elevator Era&#8221;.\u00a0 This will be a follow-on to the recently released IAA report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1594\" target=\"_blank\">Space Elevators: An Assessment of the Technological Feasibility and the Way Forward<\/a>.\u00a0 One of they key outputs of this report will be the Space Elevator Prediction Feasibility Index (SEPFI).\u00a0 I am going to be very interested in this &#8211; it should be a rigorous engineering review and prediction as to if and when, in the IAA&#8217;s opinion, a space elevator can be built.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his presention, Akira also mentioned that the Science Council of Japan defined the Space Elevator project as part of the Master Plan for large research projects &#8211; 2014.\u00a0 It is the first step of starting very small research but has recognized Space Elevator as National project.\u00a0 Hopefully this will lead to significant government funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon&#8217;s presentations started with Akira Tsuchida talking about a new IAA study; &#8220;Road to Space Elevator Era&#8221;.\u00a0 This will be a follow-on to the recently released IAA report Space Elevators: An Assessment of the Technological Feasibility and the Way Forward.\u00a0 One of they key outputs of this report will be the Space Elevator Prediction [&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-1633","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\/1633","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=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}