{"id":114818,"date":"2020-10-21T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/the-direct-fusion-drive-that-could-get-us-to-saturn-in-just-2-years"},"modified":"2020-10-21T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:25:08","slug":"the-direct-fusion-drive-that-could-get-us-to-saturn-in-just-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/the-direct-fusion-drive-that-could-get-us-to-saturn-in-just-2-years","title":{"rendered":"The Direct Fusion Drive That Could Get Us to Saturn in Just 2 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hggqvB5I95I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, a billion miles doesn\u2019t seem so far.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Experts say the right kind of propulsion system could <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-10-spacecraft-titan-years-fusion.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-10-spacecraft-titan-years-fusion.html\">carry spacecraft to Saturn<\/a> in just two years. The direct fusion drive (DFD), a concept being developed by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, would make extremely fast work of the nearly billion miles between Earth and Saturn.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0cYou like our badass universe. So do we. Let\u2019s explore it together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly, a billion miles doesn\u2019t seem so far. Experts say the right kind of propulsion system could carry spacecraft to Saturn in just two years. The direct fusion drive (DFD), a concept being developed by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, would make extremely fast work of the nearly billion miles between Earth and Saturn. \ud83c\udf0cYou like [\u2026]<\/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-114818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114818","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=114818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}