{"id":205122,"date":"2025-02-01T01:09:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T07:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/caltechs-lightsail-experiment-brings-interstellar-travel-closer-to-reality"},"modified":"2025-02-01T01:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T07:09:43","slug":"caltechs-lightsail-experiment-brings-interstellar-travel-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/caltechs-lightsail-experiment-brings-interstellar-travel-closer-to-reality","title":{"rendered":"Caltech\u2019s Lightsail Experiment Brings Interstellar Travel Closer to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/caltechs-lightsail-experiment-brings-interstellar-travel-closer-to-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for interstellar propulsion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for interstellar propulsion.<\/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-205122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205122","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=205122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}