{"id":24963,"date":"2016-04-25T15:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T22:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/listen-live-1130-am-et-nasa-to-discuss-solar-electric-propulsion"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:45","slug":"listen-live-1130-am-et-nasa-to-discuss-solar-electric-propulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/listen-live-1130-am-et-nasa-to-discuss-solar-electric-propulsion","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN LIVE @ 11:30 am ET: NASA to Discuss Solar Electric Propulsion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/listen-live-1130-am-et-nasa-to-discuss-solar-electric-propulsion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA will hold a teleconference press briefing on Thursday, April 21, to detail its latest advancements in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/videos\/10228-promising-space-engines-opening-solar-system.html\">solar electric propulsion for deep-space missions<\/a>. The briefing will begin at <strong>11:30 a.m. EDT (1530 GMT)<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news\/media\/newsaudio\/index.html\">NASA\u2019s News Audio page<\/a>, and will be embedded below if possible once it goes live. (<strong>Note:<\/strong> The window below will play NASA TV until the briefing time.) <\/p>\n<p><strong>From NASA: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-works-to-improve-solar-electric-propulsion-for-deep-space-exploration\">Tuesday\u2019s award<\/a> of a contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. for the design and development of an advanced electric propulsion system is the latest SEP milestone. A new electric propulsion system could significantly advance the nation\u2019s commercial space capabilities, and enable future deep space missions, including NASA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/journeytomars\/index.html\">Journey to Mars<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA will hold a teleconference press briefing on Thursday, April 21, to detail its latest advancements in solar electric propulsion for deep-space missions. The briefing will begin at 11:30 a.m. EDT (1530 GMT) on NASA\u2019s News Audio page, and will be embedded below if possible once it goes live. (Note: The window below will play [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24963","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67651,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24963\/revisions\/67651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}