{"id":20858,"date":"2016-01-18T08:32:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T16:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/space-elevators-will-become-feasible"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:59:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:59:52","slug":"space-elevators-will-become-feasible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/space-elevators-will-become-feasible","title":{"rendered":"Space elevators will become feasible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-elevators-will-become-feasible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The material to create space elevators will be developed by 2030, enabling a new golden age of space travel, according to a study published in the journal <em>New Space<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe material needed to have a 100,000 km rope will become real before 2030 and enable the creation of this low-cost access to space,\u201d wrote Cathy W Swan, of SouthWest Analytic Network, Peter A Swan and John M Knapman, of the International Space Elevator Consortium, and David I Raitt, retired from the European Space Agency.<\/p>\n<p>A space elevator would make launching people, satellites and craft into geostationary orbit dramatically cheaper than at present, with the researchers estimating it would drop from the current prices of $25,000 per kg for commercial launches and $40,000 per kg for governmental launches to $100 per kg for materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/factor-tech.com\/space\/21438-space-elevators-will-become-feasible-by-2030-study\/?utm_content=buffer1c8cc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The material to create space elevators will be developed by 2030, enabling a new golden age of space travel, according to a study published in the journal New Space. \u201cThe material needed to have a 100,000 km rope will become real before 2030 and enable the creation of this low-cost access to space,\u201d wrote Cathy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,2028,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-satellites","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20858","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51155,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20858\/revisions\/51155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}