{"id":210253,"date":"2025-04-01T06:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/breakthrough-lightsail-ultra-thin-ai-optimized-and-ready-to-race-to-alpha-centauri"},"modified":"2025-04-01T06:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:26:09","slug":"breakthrough-lightsail-ultra-thin-ai-optimized-and-ready-to-race-to-alpha-centauri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/breakthrough-lightsail-ultra-thin-ai-optimized-and-ready-to-race-to-alpha-centauri","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Lightsail: Ultra-Thin, AI-Optimized, and Ready to Race to Alpha Centauri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-lightsail-ultra-thin-ai-optimized-and-ready-to-race-to-alpha-centauri.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new collaboration between Brown University and TU Delft has brought us closer to interstellar travel using light-powered sails. By combining ultra-thin, highly reflective materials with AI-optimized nanoscale design, researchers created a revolutionary lightsail that\u2019s cheaper, faster to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new collaboration between Brown University and TU Delft has brought us closer to interstellar travel using light-powered sails. By combining ultra-thin, highly reflective materials with AI-optimized nanoscale design, researchers created a revolutionary lightsail that\u2019s cheaper, faster to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210253","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}