{"id":187416,"date":"2024-04-15T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/nasas-new-solar-sail-spacecraft-will-shine-so-bright-well-see-it-from-earth"},"modified":"2024-04-15T12:24:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:24:34","slug":"nasas-new-solar-sail-spacecraft-will-shine-so-bright-well-see-it-from-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/nasas-new-solar-sail-spacecraft-will-shine-so-bright-well-see-it-from-earth","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s New Solar Sail Spacecraft Will Shine So Bright We\u2019ll See It From Earth"},"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\/rfYLnbw7iu8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\\r The most recent piece of news on this front comes from American space agency NASA, which announced last week that it is getting ready to launch a new kind of solar sail that may revolutionize such technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\\r.<\/p>\n<p>\\rYou see, one of the trickiest parts of making a solar sail is not the sail surface itself but the booms that are used to deploy them. That\u2019s because solar sails are meant to extend after the ship reaches space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\\r The most recent piece of news on this front comes from American space agency NASA, which announced last week that it is getting ready to launch a new kind of solar sail that may revolutionize such technologies. \\r. \\rYou see, one of the trickiest parts of making a solar sail is not the sail [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187416","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}