{"id":608,"date":"2007-05-04T21:16:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T02:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2007-05-05T00:39:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T05:39:21","slug":"new-space-elevator-book-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"New Space Elevator Book released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/SpaceElevatorSystemsArchitectureCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_SpaceElevatorSystemsArchitectureCover.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>Peter and Cathy Swan have just released a new book which should be of great interest to the Space Elevator community.\u00a0 It&#8217;s entitled &#8220;Space Elevator Systems Architecture&#8221; and should satisfy the &#8220;geekiness&#8221; in all of us hard-core SE aficiandos&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A description of the book, from Peter and Cathy;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Space Elevator Systems Architecture gives a new look at a futuristic SPACE ELEVATOR project from a Systems Architecture perspective.\u00a0 This system of systems is a \u2026 \u201crevolutionary way of getting from Earth into space, a ribbon with one end attached to Earth on a floating platform located at the equator and the other end in space beyond geosynchronous orbit.\u00a0 A Space Elevator will ferry satellites, spaceships, and pieces of space stations into space using electric lifts clamped to the ribbon, serving as a means for commerce, scientific advancement, and exploration.\u201d\u00a0 The purpose of this book is to make the Space Elevator\u2019s arena a little easier to understand, through the use of Space Systems Architecture; and, is directed toward decision makers, engineering managers, regulators, financiers, engineers, and technicians.\u00a0 This book lays out the initial \u201ctop level\u201d view of a Space Elevator through a Space Systems Architecture approach for space mega-projects in both an academic and a practical manner illustrating steps, tradeoffs, and complexities.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;ve read this book, I&#8217;ll be posting a review of it.\u00a0 Get your copy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Space-Elevator-Systems-Architecture-Peter\/dp\/1430314052\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-6009896-6233604?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1178342904&amp;sr=1-1\">Amazon.com<\/a> today!<\/p>\n<p>(Click on the picture of the book&#8217;s cover to see a larger version)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter and Cathy Swan have just released a new book which should be of great interest to the Space Elevator community.\u00a0 It&#8217;s entitled &#8220;Space Elevator Systems Architecture&#8221; and should satisfy the &#8220;geekiness&#8221; in all of us hard-core SE aficiandos&#8230; A description of the book, from Peter and Cathy; &#8220;Space Elevator Systems Architecture gives a new [&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-608","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\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}