{"id":106784,"date":"2020-05-08T13:26:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacecraft-that-sail-on-sunshine-could-be-the-next-big-thing-in-spaceflight"},"modified":"2020-05-08T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:26:26","slug":"spacecraft-that-sail-on-sunshine-could-be-the-next-big-thing-in-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/spacecraft-that-sail-on-sunshine-could-be-the-next-big-thing-in-spaceflight","title":{"rendered":"Spacecraft that sail on sunshine could be the next big thing in spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacecraft-that-sail-on-sunshine-could-be-the-next-big-thing-in-spaceflight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These solar sails could herald a new era of spaceflight in which spacecraft forgo the rocket motors they\u2019ve relied on for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Artist\u2019s concept of LightSail 2 above Earth. Josh Spradling \/ The Planetary Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These solar sails could herald a new era of spaceflight in which spacecraft forgo the rocket motors they\u2019ve relied on for decades. Artist\u2019s concept of LightSail 2 above Earth. Josh Spradling \/ The Planetary Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106784","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=106784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}