{"id":118542,"date":"2021-01-15T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/the-rocket-engine-that-proves-solar-thermal-propulsion-isnt-just-a-crazy-theory"},"modified":"2021-01-15T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:24:21","slug":"the-rocket-engine-that-proves-solar-thermal-propulsion-isnt-just-a-crazy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/the-rocket-engine-that-proves-solar-thermal-propulsion-isnt-just-a-crazy-theory","title":{"rendered":"The Rocket Engine That Proves Solar Thermal Propulsion Isn\u2019t Just a Crazy Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-rocket-engine-that-proves-solar-thermal-propulsion-isnt-just-a-crazy-theory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory are prototyping a previously theoretical rocket design that could someday take spacecraft to interstellar space. Their plan? Use heat from the sun, rather than combustion, to power a rocket engine.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0c You love badass space stuff. So do we. Let\u2019s explore the universe together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory are prototyping a previously theoretical rocket design that could someday take spacecraft to interstellar space. Their plan? Use heat from the sun, rather than combustion, to power a rocket engine. \ud83c\udf0c You love badass space stuff. So do we. Let\u2019s explore the universe together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118542","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=118542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}