{"id":95389,"date":"2019-08-27T19:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T02:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/these-researchers-want-to-run-a-cable-from-the-earth-to-the-moon"},"modified":"2019-08-27T19:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T02:22:52","slug":"these-researchers-want-to-run-a-cable-from-the-earth-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/these-researchers-want-to-run-a-cable-from-the-earth-to-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"These Researchers Want to Run a Cable From the Earth to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-researchers-want-to-run-a-cable-from-the-earth-to-the-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would be much easier to escape Earth\u2019s gravity if you could skip the energy-intensive rockets.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the idea behind the Spaceline, a newly-proposed type of <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/why-space-elevators-are-the-future-of-space-travel\">space elevator<\/a> that would link the Earth and the Moon in a bid drastically cut the cost of space travel.<\/p>\n<p>Described in <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1908.09339.pdf\">research published to the preprint server <em>ArXiv<\/em><\/a> by researchers at Columbia University and Cambridge University, the Spaceline would be tethered to the surface of the Moon and dangle down into geostationary orbit around the Earth like a plumb bob, waiting for astronauts to latch on and ride into the cosmos. The proof-of-concept paper found that the Spaceline could be constructed out of materials that exist today, raising the possibility of easier space travel and perhaps even orbital settlements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be much easier to escape Earth\u2019s gravity if you could skip the energy-intensive rockets. That\u2019s the idea behind the Spaceline, a newly-proposed type of space elevator that would link the Earth and the Moon in a bid drastically cut the cost of space travel. Described in research published to the preprint server ArXiv [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95389","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\/95389","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=95389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}