{"id":102385,"date":"2020-02-15T02:48:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T10:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/amazon-patents-a-system-for-whipping-stuff-into-the-air-or-space"},"modified":"2020-02-15T02:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T10:48:54","slug":"amazon-patents-a-system-for-whipping-stuff-into-the-air-or-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/amazon-patents-a-system-for-whipping-stuff-into-the-air-or-space","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Patents a System for Whipping Stuff Into the Air (or Space)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AnaASTBn_K4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted a <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=\/netahtml\/PTO\/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=\/netahtml\/PTO\/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes\">patent<\/a> to Amazon that covers \u201cenergy-efficient launch system for aerial vehicles,\u201d meaning Amazon could be working on a way to fling your packages into the air\u2014or space.<\/p>\n<p>While at first a weird concept, it makes sense in context. This whip-like approach could shoot satellites into space as part of Amazon\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.jobs\/en\/teams\/projectkuiper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.jobs\/en\/teams\/projectkuiper\">Project Kuiper<\/a> low-Earth satellite constellation or Amazon drones that would zoom off to deliver packages.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve reached out to Amazon for comment on the patent and we\u2019ll update this story once we get a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Amazon that covers \u201cenergy-efficient launch system for aerial vehicles,\u201d meaning Amazon could be working on a way to fling your packages into the air\u2014or space. While at first a weird concept, it makes sense in context. This whip-like approach could shoot satellites into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1497,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}