{"id":342,"date":"2006-09-26T17:06:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T22:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2006-09-26T17:06:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T22:06:39","slug":"even-on-the-ground-space-elevators-may-have-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Even on the ground, space elevators may have uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NewScientistSpace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientistspace.com\/article\/dn10161-even-on-the-ground-space-elevators-may-have-uses.html\">article<\/a> on LiftPort&#8217;s recently completed 60 day test of their one-mile high tether system.\u00a0 Several interesting problems with airborne wildlife were encountered.<\/p>\n<p>The article also reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\">LiftPort<\/a> is now working with North Carolina State University and Rutgers University to develop a three-mile high tether system.\u00a0 Finally, it is reported that LiftPort&#8217;s carbon nanotube factory has now &#8220;made its own carbon nanotubes for the first time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewScientistSpace article on LiftPort&#8217;s recently completed 60 day test of their one-mile high tether system.\u00a0 Several interesting problems with airborne wildlife were encountered. The article also reported that LiftPort is now working with North Carolina State University and Rutgers University to develop a three-mile high tether system.\u00a0 Finally, it is reported that LiftPort&#8217;s carbon nanotube [&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-342","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\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}