{"id":19213,"date":"2015-11-09T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T19:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/electric-sails-could-propel-superfast-spacecraft"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:52","slug":"electric-sails-could-propel-superfast-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/electric-sails-could-propel-superfast-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Electric Sails\u2019 Could Propel Superfast Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electric-sails-could-propel-superfast-spacecraft.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SANTA CLARA, California \u2014 Robotic spacecraft may ride the solar wind toward interstellar space at unprecedented speeds a decade or so from now.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are developing an \u201celectric sail\u201d (e-sail) propulsion system that would harness the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/22215-solar-wind.html\">solar wind<\/a>, the stream of protons, electrons and other charged particles that flows outward from the sun at more than 1 million mph (1.6 million kilometers per hour).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks really, really promising for ultra-deep-space exploration,\u201d Les Johnson, of NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said of the e-sail concept here at the 100-Year Starship Symposium on Oct. 30. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/21337-advanced-spacecraft-propulsion-concepts-images.html\">Superfast Spacecraft Propulsion Concepts (Images)<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/31063-electric-sail-solar-wind-space-exploration.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA CLARA, California \u2014 Robotic spacecraft may ride the solar wind toward interstellar space at unprecedented speeds a decade or so from now. Researchers are developing an \u201celectric sail\u201d (e-sail) propulsion system that would harness the solar wind, the stream of protons, electrons and other charged particles that flows outward from the sun at more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19213","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69220,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19213\/revisions\/69220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}