{"id":684,"date":"2007-07-24T12:02:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T17:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2007-07-24T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T17:02:50","slug":"new-life-for-liftport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"New life for LiftPort?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"151\" src=\"\/media\/CosmicLogLogo.jpg\"  height=\"30\" style=\"width: 151px; height: 30px\" \/>In his post <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2007\/07\/23\/285727.aspx\">&#8220;A Boost from Balloons?&#8221;<\/a> on his Cosmic Log, Alan Boyle details the possibilities that LiftPort may have in using it&#8217;s Tethered Tower application to stay afloat (pun intended).\u00a0 Alan talks about his conversations with LiftPort&#8217;s Michael Laine and their latest demo (the preparation of which was described somewhat painfully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/progress\/wp\/?p=1218\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"260\" src=\"\/media\/LiftPortNewLogo.jpg\"  height=\"60\" style=\"width: 260px; height: 60px\" \/>LiftPort\/Tethered Towers may have one or more potential customers for this product and that may be enough for them to stay solvent and continue on their quest to build a Space Elevator.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his post &#8220;A Boost from Balloons?&#8221; on his Cosmic Log, Alan Boyle details the possibilities that LiftPort may have in using it&#8217;s Tethered Tower application to stay afloat (pun intended).\u00a0 Alan talks about his conversations with LiftPort&#8217;s Michael Laine and their latest demo (the preparation of which was described somewhat painfully here). LiftPort\/Tethered Towers [&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-684","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\/684","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=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}