{"id":243958,"date":"2026-09-12T01:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/mit-is-building-space-stations-like-you-would-build-with-magnatiles"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:07:07","slug":"mit-is-building-space-stations-like-you-would-build-with-magnatiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/mit-is-building-space-stations-like-you-would-build-with-magnatiles","title":{"rendered":"MIT is building space stations like you would build with magnatiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-is-building-space-stations-like-you-would-build-with-magnatiles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Floating magnetic tiles click together in zero-G to build the future of space. Dr. Ariel Ekblaw\u2019s self-assembling technology could pave the way for stadium-sized orbital solar arrays, lunar Artemis habitats, and modular replacements for the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floating magnetic tiles click together in zero-G to build the future of space. Dr. Ariel Ekblaw\u2019s self-assembling technology could pave the way for stadium-sized orbital solar arrays, lunar Artemis habitats, and modular replacements for the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243958","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=243958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}