{"id":120358,"date":"2021-03-08T22:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T06:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/in-cryptic-tweet-elon-musk-refers-to-antimatter-powered-rockets"},"modified":"2021-03-08T22:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T06:22:54","slug":"in-cryptic-tweet-elon-musk-refers-to-antimatter-powered-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/in-cryptic-tweet-elon-musk-refers-to-antimatter-powered-rockets","title":{"rendered":"In Cryptic Tweet, Elon Musk Refers to Antimatter-Powered Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-cryptic-tweet-elon-musk-refers-to-antimatter-powered-rockets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starship is powered by methane. Its Falcon 9 runs on highly refined kerosene known as RP-1.<\/p>\n<p>But if a new tweet means anything, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk already has his eyes set on a much higher-tech rocket fuel: antimatter.<\/p>\n<p>In a reply to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/engineers_feed\/status\/1368833871152771078\" class=\"\" >a post<\/a> about antimatter rockets \u2014 hypothetical spacecraft that would be powered by antimatter \u2014 Musk tweeted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1368845550687117312\" class=\"\" >just two words<\/a>: \u201cUltimately, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starship is powered by methane. Its Falcon 9 runs on highly refined kerosene known as RP-1. But if a new tweet means anything, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk already has his eyes set on a much higher-tech rocket fuel: antimatter. In a reply to a post about antimatter rockets \u2014 hypothetical spacecraft that would be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120358","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=120358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}