{"id":301,"date":"2006-08-04T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2006-08-04T20:00:44","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T01:00:44","slug":"can-high-wi-fi-boost-space-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Can high wi-fi boost space elevator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at MSNBC.com, Alan Boyle <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14162390\/\">talks<\/a> about LiftPort&#8217;s\u00a0being &#8220;<em>in the midst of a two-month test to see if a balloon-based platform, moored to the ground, can serve as a reliable relay for Internet traffic in remote areas \u2014 serving &#8220;the guys that everybody else forgot,&#8221; said the company&#8217;s founder and president, Michael Laine<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 LiftPort says they have a customer for this technology already, LightSpeed Broadband, who want to use this in order to provide wireless Internet services for the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Also in this article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\">LiftPort&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0founder and president\u00a0Michael Laine talks about the delays they&#8217;ve encountered in getting their nanotube factory up and running and a possible moving-back of their 2018 target date to get a space elevator operational.\u00a0 I hope it doesn&#8217;t move back too far &#8211; I&#8217;ll be a senior citizen by then and I still see this as my best way of getting into space&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at MSNBC.com, Alan Boyle talks about LiftPort&#8217;s\u00a0being &#8220;in the midst of a two-month test to see if a balloon-based platform, moored to the ground, can serve as a reliable relay for Internet traffic in remote areas \u2014 serving &#8220;the guys that everybody else forgot,&#8221; said the company&#8217;s founder and president, Michael Laine.&#8221;\u00a0 LiftPort says [&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-301","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\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}