{"id":242489,"date":"2026-08-10T21:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/highorbit-satellites-could-light-the-way-for-travel-to-the-moon"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:04:28","slug":"highorbit-satellites-could-light-the-way-for-travel-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/highorbit-satellites-could-light-the-way-for-travel-to-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Highorbit satellites could light the way for travel to the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/highorbit-satellites-could-light-the-way-for-travel-to-the-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The LightHOUSE concept from MIT Lincoln Laboratory calls for multiple satellites acting as cooperative optical beacons in high-altitude orbits to determine the position of spacecraft traveling in cislunar space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LightHOUSE concept from MIT Lincoln Laboratory calls for multiple satellites acting as cooperative optical beacons in high-altitude orbits to determine the position of spacecraft traveling in cislunar space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242489","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=242489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}