{"id":28214,"date":"2016-07-23T13:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T20:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/japan-is-about-to-test-out-plans-for-a-real-life-space-elevator"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:31:26","slug":"japan-is-about-to-test-out-plans-for-a-real-life-space-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/japan-is-about-to-test-out-plans-for-a-real-life-space-elevator","title":{"rendered":"Japan is about to test out plans for a real-life space elevator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-is-about-to-test-out-plans-for-a-real-life-space-elevator.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/watch-can-we-really-build-a-space-elevator\">space elevator<\/a> to lift us into orbit is one of the oldest concepts in sci-fi, but thanks to the efforts of scientists in Japan, we might soon be seeing this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-20-km-high-space-elevator-could-revolutionise-how-we-get-into-orbit\">fantastic feat of engineering<\/a> become a reality at last.<\/p>\n<p>A mini satellite called STARS-C (Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite-Cube) is heading to the International Space Station in the coming months and is a prototype design that could form the basis of a future space elevator.<\/p>\n<p>Once STARS-C has been delivered \u2013 on some to-be-determined date after the Northern Hemisphere\u2019s summer \u2013 its makers at Shizuoka University will put it to the test: the orbiter will split into two 10-cm (3.94-inch) cubes and spool out a thin 100-metre tether made of Kevlar between them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/japanese-scientists-are-about-to-test-out-plans-for-a-real-life-space-elevator\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/japanese-scientists-are-about-to...e-elevator<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of a space elevator to lift us into orbit is one of the oldest concepts in sci-fi, but thanks to the efforts of scientists in Japan, we might soon be seeing this fantastic feat of engineering become a reality at last. A mini satellite called STARS-C (Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite-Cube) is heading [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28214","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=28214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66808,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28214\/revisions\/66808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}