{"id":116059,"date":"2020-11-19T23:24:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T07:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/dipole-drive-for-space-propulsion-robert-zubrin-at-breakthrough-discuss-2018"},"modified":"2020-11-19T23:24:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T07:24:27","slug":"dipole-drive-for-space-propulsion-robert-zubrin-at-breakthrough-discuss-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/dipole-drive-for-space-propulsion-robert-zubrin-at-breakthrough-discuss-2018","title":{"rendered":"Dipole Drive for space propulsion | Robert Zubrin at Breakthrough Discuss 2018"},"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\/93pX9_7vYb0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The speed of space travel is currently limited by the quantity of chemical fuel that spacecraft must carry. Robert Zubrin, President of Pioneer Astronautics, introduces the dipole drive \u2014 a new propulsion system which uses ambient space plasma as propellant, thereby avoiding the need to carry its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 The speed of space travel is currently limited by the quantity of chemical fuel that spacecraft must carry. Robert Zubrin, President of Pioneer Astronautics, introduces the dipole drive \u2014 a new propulsion system which uses ambient space plasma as propellant, thereby avoiding the need to carry its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116059","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}