{"id":458,"date":"2006-11-30T01:56:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T06:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2006-11-30T01:56:51","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T06:56:51","slug":"solar-power-satellites-to-reforge-political-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Solar Power Satellites to Reforge Political Landscape?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the LiftPort Blog, Tom Nugent has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/progress\/wp\/?p=1030\">posted<\/a> some thoughts as to which nations, more than others, might see Solar Power Satellites (SPS) as being very valuable from a national security perspective.<\/p>\n<p>I completely agree.\u00a0 I think that deploying SPS is the &#8220;killer app&#8221; for a Space Elevator.\u00a0 I also think it&#8217;s a reason why being first in deploying a Space Elevator might not be the huge advantage its often touted to be.\u00a0 For example, I could see a country, like Japan, deploying their own Space Elevator(s), even if others already exist, just from a Security standpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the LiftPort Blog, Tom Nugent has posted some thoughts as to which nations, more than others, might see Solar Power Satellites (SPS) as being very valuable from a national security perspective. I completely agree.\u00a0 I think that deploying SPS is the &#8220;killer app&#8221; for a Space Elevator.\u00a0 I also think it&#8217;s a reason why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}