{"id":217270,"date":"2025-07-06T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T14:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/were-finally-fast-enough-nuclear-propulsion-and-solar-sails-could-blast-a-spacecraft-to-sedna-in-just-7-years"},"modified":"2025-07-06T09:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T14:17:15","slug":"were-finally-fast-enough-nuclear-propulsion-and-solar-sails-could-blast-a-spacecraft-to-sedna-in-just-7-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/were-finally-fast-enough-nuclear-propulsion-and-solar-sails-could-blast-a-spacecraft-to-sedna-in-just-7-years","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re Finally Fast Enough\u201d: Nuclear Propulsion and Solar Sails Could Blast a Spacecraft to Sedna in Just 7 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/were-finally-fast-enough-nuclear-propulsion-and-solar-sails-could-blast-a-spacecraft-to-sedna-in-just-7-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN A NUTSHELL \ud83d\ude80 Scientists are developing two experimental propulsion methods\u2014nuclear fusion and solar sails\u2014to reach Sedna. \ud83c\udf0c Sedna, named after the Inuit goddess of the ocean, offers a rare chance to explore the outer solar system. \ud83d\udd2c Exploring Sedna could unlock insights into the early solar system and the formation of celestial bodies. \ud83c\udf0d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN A NUTSHELL \ud83d\ude80 Scientists are developing two experimental propulsion methods\u2014nuclear fusion and solar sails\u2014to reach Sedna. \ud83c\udf0c Sedna, named after the Inuit goddess of the ocean, offers a rare chance to explore the outer solar system. \ud83d\udd2c Exploring Sedna could unlock insights into the early solar system and the formation of celestial bodies. \ud83c\udf0d<\/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-217270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217270","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=217270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}