{"id":150723,"date":"2022-11-21T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T01:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-historic-lightsail-2-mission-finally-burned-up-in-earths-atmosphere"},"modified":"2022-11-21T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T01:22:54","slug":"the-historic-lightsail-2-mission-finally-burned-up-in-earths-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-historic-lightsail-2-mission-finally-burned-up-in-earths-atmosphere","title":{"rendered":"The historic LightSail 2 mission finally burned up in Earth\u2019s atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-historic-lightsail-2-mission-finally-burned-up-in-earths-atmosphere2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Imbaratto, Stellar Exploration \/ The Planetary Society.<\/p>\n<p>The mission demonstrated that flight by light is possible when it used a 32-square-meter (244-square-foot) sail made out of mylar to raise a small CubeSat spacecraft\u2019s orbit by 1.9 miles (3.2 km).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Imbaratto, Stellar Exploration \/ The Planetary Society. The mission demonstrated that flight by light is possible when it used a 32-square-meter (244-square-foot) sail made out of mylar to raise a small CubeSat spacecraft\u2019s orbit by 1.9 miles (3.2 km).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150723","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=150723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}