{"id":160946,"date":"2023-03-24T18:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/radical-nasa-propulsion-concept-could-reach-interstellar-space-in-under-5-years"},"modified":"2023-03-24T18:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:22:49","slug":"radical-nasa-propulsion-concept-could-reach-interstellar-space-in-under-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/radical-nasa-propulsion-concept-could-reach-interstellar-space-in-under-5-years","title":{"rendered":"Radical NASA Propulsion Concept Could Reach Interstellar Space in Under 5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/radical-nasa-propulsion-concept-could-reach-interstellar-space-in-under-5-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly proposed propulsion system could theoretically beam a heavy spacecraft to outside the confines of our Solar System in less than 5 years \u2013 a feat that took the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/super-long-distance-nasa-fix-restores-voyager-1-roughly-15-billion-miles-away\">historic Voyager 1 probe<\/a> 35 years to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>The concept, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/niac\/2023\/Pellet_Beam_Propulsion\/\">\u2019pellet-beam\u2019 propulsion<\/a>, was awarded an early-stage US$175,000 NASA grant for further development earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, the concept currently doesn\u2019t exist much beyond calculations on paper, so we can\u2019t get too excited just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly proposed propulsion system could theoretically beam a heavy spacecraft to outside the confines of our Solar System in less than 5 years \u2013 a feat that took the historic Voyager 1 probe 35 years to achieve. The concept, known as \u2019pellet-beam\u2019 propulsion, was awarded an early-stage US$175,000 NASA grant for further development earlier [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160946","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}