{"id":24730,"date":"2016-04-16T13:04:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T20:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/micro-spaceships-powered-by-lasers-to-search-for-alien-life"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:16:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:16:46","slug":"micro-spaceships-powered-by-lasers-to-search-for-alien-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/micro-spaceships-powered-by-lasers-to-search-for-alien-life","title":{"rendered":"Micro spaceships powered by lasers to search for alien life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/micro-spaceships-powered-by-lasers-to-search-for-alien-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microscopic spaceships powered by Earth-based lasers are being developed to hunt for extra-terrestrial life in Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to ours.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a370m Breakthrough Starshot concept involves creating a tiny robotic spacecraft, no larger than a mobile phone chip, which would carry cameras, thrusters, a power supply and navigation and communication equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Physicist Stephen Hawking, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Russian internet billionaire Yuri Milner have all joined the project\u2019s board giving it major backing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/news\/2016\/apr\/micro-spaceship-laser-beam.cfm\">http:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/news\/2016\/apr\/micro-spaceship-laser-beam.cfm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microscopic spaceships powered by Earth-based lasers are being developed to hunt for extra-terrestrial life in Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to ours. The \u00a370m Breakthrough Starshot concept involves creating a tiny robotic spacecraft, no larger than a mobile phone chip, which would carry cameras, thrusters, a power supply and navigation and communication equipment. Physicist [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1523,418,1512,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-computing","category-internet","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50798,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730\/revisions\/50798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}