{"id":121562,"date":"2021-04-14T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T02:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/for-the-first-time-scientists-have-performed-atom-interferometry-in-space"},"modified":"2021-04-14T19:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T02:23:13","slug":"for-the-first-time-scientists-have-performed-atom-interferometry-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/for-the-first-time-scientists-have-performed-atom-interferometry-in-space","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time, Scientists Have Performed Atom Interferometry in Space"},"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\/5C5_dOEyAfk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To make some of the most precise measurements we can of the world around us, scientists tend to go small \u2014 right down to the atomic scale, using a technique called atom interferometry.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the first time, scientists have performed this kind of measurement in space, using a sounding rocket specially designed to carry science payloads into low-Earth space.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a significant step towards being able to perform matter-wave interferometry in space, for science applications that range from fundamental physics to navigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make some of the most precise measurements we can of the world around us, scientists tend to go small \u2014 right down to the atomic scale, using a technique called atom interferometry. Now, for the first time, scientists have performed this kind of measurement in space, using a sounding rocket specially designed to carry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121562","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=121562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}