{"id":129038,"date":"2021-10-15T18:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T01:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/how-solar-rockets-can-bring-uber-to-musks-mars-city"},"modified":"2021-10-15T18:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T01:22:16","slug":"how-solar-rockets-can-bring-uber-to-musks-mars-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/how-solar-rockets-can-bring-uber-to-musks-mars-city","title":{"rendered":"How solar rockets can bring Uber to Musk\u2019s Mars city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-solar-rockets-can-bring-uber-to-musks-mars-city2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One emergent company, Virgin Orbit wants to switch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eYImjgBF2oM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">from a fuel-burning<\/a> upper stage to solar energy, a move that could support future human habitats on other planets.<\/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\/eYImjgBF2oM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The satellite launch company has made a name for itself with its visually striking rocket launches. Strapped to the wing of a Boeing 747 the LauncherOne rocket doesn\u2019t need the same launch pads and infrastructure as its competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Orbit has hosted two successful launches to orbit, but it\u2019s not stopping there. CEO Dan Hart tells <em>Inverse<\/em> that \u201cwe\u2019re developing a <strong>solar electric upper stage<\/strong> for our rocket right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One emergent company, Virgin Orbit wants to switch from a fuel-burning upper stage to solar energy, a move that could support future human habitats on other planets. The satellite launch company has made a name for itself with its visually striking rocket launches. Strapped to the wing of a Boeing 747 the LauncherOne rocket doesn\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129038","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}