{"id":24735,"date":"2016-04-16T22:46:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T05:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/photon-propulsion-could-launch-spacecraft-to-mars-in-days"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:29:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:29:51","slug":"photon-propulsion-could-launch-spacecraft-to-mars-in-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/photon-propulsion-could-launch-spacecraft-to-mars-in-days","title":{"rendered":"Photon Propulsion Could Launch Spacecraft To Mars In Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists say recent advances in laser propulsion technology could make it possible for spacecrafts to reach Mars in as little as 3 days using photon propulsion.<\/p>\n<p>The concept was shared by Philip Lubin, a physics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara at the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/niac\/index.html\">NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (NIAC) symposium. Ultimately, the method seeks to place an ultra-powerful laser in Earth\u2019s orbit, that would use photon pressure to power a \u201csail-equipped\u201d spacecraft. [<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/newuniversedaily.com\/2016\/01\/03\/esa-to-build-moon-village-by-2030\/\">ESA To Build \u201cMoon Village\u201d by 2030<\/a><\/em><\/strong>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newuniversedaily.com\/2016\/02\/24\/photon-propulsion-could-launch-spacecraft-to-mars-in-days\/\">https:\/\/newuniversedaily.com\/2016\/02\/24\/photon-propulsion-co...s-in-days\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say recent advances in laser propulsion technology could make it possible for spacecrafts to reach Mars in as little as 3 days using photon propulsion. The concept was shared by Philip Lubin, a physics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium. Ultimately, the method seeks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735","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=24735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62020,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions\/62020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}