{"id":1116,"date":"2007-09-29T11:45:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T16:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/09\/29\/economic-realities-of-cheap-orbital-access\/"},"modified":"2007-09-29T11:45:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T16:45:55","slug":"economic-realities-of-cheap-orbital-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Economic Realities of Cheap Orbital Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been quiet here lately due to work, preparation for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ifcomp.org\/\">yearly interactive fiction competition<\/a>, and Kingdom Hearts. Since I&#8217;m not writing anything here, the least I can do is offer an interesting link, even if by &#8220;interesting&#8221; I mean &#8220;something that only Geof and I are likely to care about&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/colonyfund.com\/Reading\/papers\/phys_econ_leo.html\">When Physics, Economics, and Reality Collide<\/a> is a detailed look at what it would take to get cheap orbital access, &#8220;cheap&#8221; here being defined as $1000 per pound launched into low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>(Link courtesy of the inestimable <a href=\"http:\/\/james-nicoll.livejournal.com\/\">James Nicoll<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been quiet here lately due to work, preparation for the yearly interactive fiction competition, and Kingdom Hearts. Since I&#8217;m not writing anything here, the least I can do is offer an interesting link, even if by &#8220;interesting&#8221; I mean &#8220;something that only Geof and I are likely to care about&#8221;. When Physics, Economics, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Economic Realities of Cheap Orbital Access<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}