{"id":185308,"date":"2024-03-17T22:24:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T03:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/space-elevators-are-inching-closer-to-reality"},"modified":"2024-03-17T22:24:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T03:24:46","slug":"space-elevators-are-inching-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/space-elevators-are-inching-closer-to-reality","title":{"rendered":"Space elevators are inching closer to reality"},"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\/zTopir7Gukk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/space-elevator\">https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/space-elevator<\/a> \ud83d\udcf8: VectorMine \/ Adobe Stock<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The researchers are still working on the issue of scaling up production, but in 2021, state-owned news outlet Xinhua released a video depicting an in-development concept, called \u201cSky Ladder,\u201d that would consist of space elevators above Earth and the moon.<\/p>\n<p>After riding up the Earth-based space elevator, a capsule would fly to a space station attached to the tether of the moon-based one. If the project could be pulled off \u2014 a huge if \u2014 China predicts Sky Ladder could cut the cost of sending people and goods to the moon by 96%.<\/p>\n<p>In the 120 years since Tsiolkovsky looked at the Eiffel Tower and thought <em>way<\/em> bigger, tremendous progress has been made developing materials with the properties needed for a space elevator. At this point, it seems likely we could one day have a material that can be manufactured at the scale needed for a tether \u2014 but by the time that happens, the need for a space elevator may have evaporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/space-elevator \ud83d\udcf8: VectorMine \/ Adobe Stock The researchers are still working on the issue of scaling up production, but in 2021, state-owned news outlet Xinhua released a video depicting an in-development concept, called \u201cSky Ladder,\u201d that would consist of space elevators above Earth and the moon. After riding up the Earth-based space elevator, a capsule [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185308","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}