{"id":18567,"date":"2015-10-20T01:46:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T08:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/positron-dynamics-plans-to-fly-an-antimatter-powered-cubsat"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:57:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:57:31","slug":"positron-dynamics-plans-to-fly-an-antimatter-powered-cubsat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/positron-dynamics-plans-to-fly-an-antimatter-powered-cubsat","title":{"rendered":"Positron Dynamics plans to fly an antimatter powered cubsat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UMKm45HYDNU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Positron Dynamics had seed funding from Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel\u2019s Breakout Labs. Initial simulations show that as much as 10 micrograms of positrons could be produced each week with a linear accelerator,\u201d says co-founder Ryan Weed, PhD, a physicist and former cryogenic engineer for Jeff Bezos\u2019s space flight company Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p>Now they have stated in a new presentation that they will have an antimatter powered cubesat vehicles in 2016\u20132019. They will be able to keep a cubesat in low earth orbit for seven years instead of few days. Then they will enable high speed spacecraft to go the outer solar system and then to the stars at a significant fraction of the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2015\/10\/positron-dynamics-plans-to-fly.html?m=1\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, Positron Dynamics had seed funding from Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel\u2019s Breakout Labs. Initial simulations show that as much as 10 micrograms of positrons could be produced each week with a linear accelerator,\u201d says co-founder Ryan Weed, PhD, a physicist and former cryogenic engineer for Jeff Bezos\u2019s space flight company Blue Origin. Now they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18567","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45525,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18567\/revisions\/45525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}