{"id":120304,"date":"2021-03-07T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T01:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/photonic-laser-thruster-could-power-spacecraft-from-earth"},"modified":"2021-03-07T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T01:53:09","slug":"photonic-laser-thruster-could-power-spacecraft-from-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/photonic-laser-thruster-could-power-spacecraft-from-earth","title":{"rendered":"Photonic laser thruster could power spacecraft from Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photonic-laser-thruster-could-power-spacecraft-from-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new laser thruster could be a step towards new technology to push satellites rapidly between planets.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration model of the Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT) moved a 750-gram mock satellite along a track in the laboratory using only the power of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new laser thruster could be a step towards new technology to push satellites rapidly between planets. The demonstration model of the Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT) moved a 750-gram mock satellite along a track in the laboratory using only the power of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120304","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=120304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}