{"id":240780,"date":"2026-07-14T00:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-strange-force-that-could-slow-interstellar-solar-sails"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:41:46","slug":"the-strange-force-that-could-slow-interstellar-solar-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-strange-force-that-could-slow-interstellar-solar-sails","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Force That Could Slow Interstellar Solar Sails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-strange-force-that-could-slow-interstellar-solar-sails.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solar sails may encounter drag from light itself as they approach a significant fraction of the speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar sails may encounter drag from light itself as they approach a significant fraction of the speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240780","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=240780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}