{"id":162372,"date":"2023-04-17T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/solar-sails-could-guide-interplanetary-travel-says-new-study"},"modified":"2023-04-17T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T03:24:00","slug":"solar-sails-could-guide-interplanetary-travel-says-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/solar-sails-could-guide-interplanetary-travel-says-new-study","title":{"rendered":"Solar sails could guide interplanetary travel, says new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-sails-could-guide-interplanetary-travel-says-new-study3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space travel has brought us to our next-door neighbor, the moon, and to the depths of our larger solar community inhabited by giants such as Saturn and Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982, Voyager 2 whisked past Uranus closer than any other spacecraft has since, and now is sailing\u201446 years after its launch\u2014through the constellation of Pavo, some 179 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+years\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light years<\/a> from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>But there have been few comparable satellite missions in recent years. Cost is the main obstacle, but time frame is also a factor. The design for such long journeys takes years to calculate, and planning and construction of a space vehicle would take about a decade. Factoring in the time a satellite would require to reach distant targets means our next peek into the stars will likely not come any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space travel has brought us to our next-door neighbor, the moon, and to the depths of our larger solar community inhabited by giants such as Saturn and Jupiter. In 1982, Voyager 2 whisked past Uranus closer than any other spacecraft has since, and now is sailing\u201446 years after its launch\u2014through the constellation of Pavo, some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162372","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}