{"id":901,"date":"2008-01-19T14:48:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T19:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=901"},"modified":"2008-01-19T14:48:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T19:48:43","slug":"but-first-an-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"But first, an announcement&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"167\" src=\"\/media\/OnOrbitLogo.jpg\"  height=\"48\" style=\"width: 167px; height: 48px\" \/>Over at the Space Elevator Reference, Marc Boucher <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevator.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/on_orbit_launch.html\">announces<\/a> the launch of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceref.com\/\"><font color=\"#2b508f\">SpaceRef Interactive Inc.<\/font><\/a> the company that owns and operates this site today launched a new social space news and networking service called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onorbit.com\/\"><font color=\"#2b508f\">On Orbit<\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For space elevator enthusiasts and professionals the service includes a Forum dedicated to the Space Elevator. Notable space elevator figures including but not limited to Spaceward&#8217;s Ben Shelef and Brad Edwards will be contributing to the forum.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onorbit.com\/forum\/spaceelevator\"><font color=\"#2b508f\">Space Elevator Forum<\/font><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onorbit.com\/forum\/spacewardgames2008\"><font color=\"#2b508f\">Spaceward Games 2008 Forum Topic<\/font><\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These forums join others already in existence, among them being the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tech.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/space-elevator\/\">Yahoo Groups Space Elevator Forum<\/a>, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/forums\/\">Liftport forums<\/a> and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlewebcrafters.com\/nsecc\/?q=node\/view\/2\">National Space Society\u00a0Space\u00a0Elevator\u00a0Chapter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Space Elevator Reference, Marc Boucher announces the launch of: &#8220;SpaceRef Interactive Inc. the company that owns and operates this site today launched a new social space news and networking service called On Orbit. For space elevator enthusiasts and professionals the service includes a Forum dedicated to the Space Elevator. Notable space elevator [&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-901","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\/901","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=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}