{"id":22474,"date":"2016-02-21T01:47:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T09:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/photonic-laser-propulsion-to-send-a-100-kg-vehicle-to-mars-in-3-days-and-to-get-to-wafercraft-to-30-of-the-speed-of-light"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:51:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:51:53","slug":"photonic-laser-propulsion-to-send-a-100-kg-vehicle-to-mars-in-3-days-and-to-get-to-wafercraft-to-30-of-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/photonic-laser-propulsion-to-send-a-100-kg-vehicle-to-mars-in-3-days-and-to-get-to-wafercraft-to-30-of-the-speed-of-light","title":{"rendered":"Photonic Laser Propulsion to send a 100 kg vehicle to Mars in 3 days and to get to wafercraft to 30% of the speed of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WCDuAiA6kX0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Philip Lubin describes his appraoch to achieving laser driving spacecraft propulsion in the near term.<\/p>\n<p>100kg robotic craft could be sent to Mars in 3 days.<br \/> 1kg could go overnight to Mars.<br \/> 50\u2013100 GW could send a wafercraft to 30% of the speed of light and i would involve 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/02\/photonic-laser-propulsion-to-send-100.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Lubin describes his appraoch to achieving laser driving spacecraft propulsion in the near term. 100kg robotic craft could be sent to Mars in 3 days. 1kg could go overnight to Mars. 50\u2013100 GW could send a wafercraft to 30% of the speed of light and i would involve 10 minutes. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22474","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62749,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22474\/revisions\/62749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}