{"id":173127,"date":"2023-09-29T16:01:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T21:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-solar-sail-spacecraft-could-reach-mars-in-only-26-days"},"modified":"2023-09-29T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T21:01:52","slug":"a-solar-sail-spacecraft-could-reach-mars-in-only-26-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-solar-sail-spacecraft-could-reach-mars-in-only-26-days","title":{"rendered":"A solar sail spacecraft could reach Mars in only 26 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-solar-sail-spacecraft-could-reach-mars-in-only-26-days2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Imbaratto \/ Stellar Exploration \/ The Planetary Society.<\/p>\n<p>Solar sails were first demonstrated in space by the Planetary Society\u2019s LightSail 2 mission, which raised a small CubeSat\u2019s orbit by 1.9 miles (3.2 km) using only the propulsive force of photons, or light beams, from the Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Imbaratto \/ Stellar Exploration \/ The Planetary Society. Solar sails were first demonstrated in space by the Planetary Society\u2019s LightSail 2 mission, which raised a small CubeSat\u2019s orbit by 1.9 miles (3.2 km) using only the propulsive force of photons, or light beams, from the Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173127","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\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}