{"id":204541,"date":"2025-01-25T19:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T01:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/electric-spacecraft-propulsion-may-soon-take-a-leap-thanks-to-new-supercomputer"},"modified":"2025-01-25T19:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T01:11:08","slug":"electric-spacecraft-propulsion-may-soon-take-a-leap-thanks-to-new-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/electric-spacecraft-propulsion-may-soon-take-a-leap-thanks-to-new-supercomputer","title":{"rendered":"Electric spacecraft propulsion may soon take a leap, thanks to new supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electric-spacecraft-propulsion-may-soon-take-a-leap-thanks-to-new-supercomputer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion could soon be better protected against their own exhaust, thanks to new supercomputer simulations.<\/p>\n<p>Electric propulsion is a more efficient alternative to traditional chemical rockets, and it\u2019s being increasingly used on space missions, starting off with prototypes on NASA\u2019s Deep Space 1 and the European Space Agency\u2019s SMART-1 in 1998 and 2003, respectively, and subsequently finding use on flagship science missions such as NASA\u2019s Dawn and Psyche missions to the asteroid belt. There are even plans to use electric propulsion on NASA\u2019s Lunar Gateway space station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion could soon be better protected against their own exhaust, thanks to new supercomputer simulations. Electric propulsion is a more efficient alternative to traditional chemical rockets, and it\u2019s being increasingly used on space missions, starting off with prototypes on NASA\u2019s Deep Space 1 and the European Space Agency\u2019s SMART-1 in 1998 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1514,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space-travel","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204541","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}