{"id":151524,"date":"2022-11-30T13:24:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/worlds-first-steam-propelled-spacecraft-heads-to-the-moon-and-beyond"},"modified":"2022-11-30T13:24:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T19:24:54","slug":"worlds-first-steam-propelled-spacecraft-heads-to-the-moon-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/worlds-first-steam-propelled-spacecraft-heads-to-the-moon-and-beyond","title":{"rendered":"\u2018World\u2019s first\u2019 steam-propelled spacecraft heads to the moon and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-steam-propelled-spacecraft-heads-to-the-moon-and-beyond2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will take 1.5 years to reach its final destination far beyond the moon.<\/p>\n<p>In a world first, Japan\u2019s space agency announced it successfully used steam to propel a spacecraft toward the Moon. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency\u2019s (JAXA) water-powered CubeSat spacecraft, EQUilibriUm Lunar-Earth point 6U (EQUULEUS), was launched on its way by NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft, which recently broke a record for the farthest distance traveled by a human-rated spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the world\u2019s first successful orbit control beyond low-Earth orbit using water propellant propulsion system,\u201d JAXA said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>JAXA \/ University of Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency\u2019s (JAXA) water-powered CubeSat spacecraft, EQUilibriUm Lunar-Earth point 6U (EQUULEUS), was launched on its way by NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft, which recently broke a record for the farthest distance traveled by a human-rated spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will take 1.5 years to reach its final destination far beyond the moon. In a world first, Japan\u2019s space agency announced it successfully used steam to propel a spacecraft toward the Moon. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency\u2019s (JAXA) water-powered CubeSat spacecraft, EQUilibriUm Lunar-Earth point 6U (EQUULEUS), was launched on its way by NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151524","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}