{"id":27566,"date":"2016-07-07T02:57:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T09:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=27566"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:25:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:25:10","slug":"how-the-end-of-the-cold-war-forced-nasa-to-make-its-jupiter-spacecraft-solar-powered-by-akshat-rathi-quartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/how-the-end-of-the-cold-war-forced-nasa-to-make-its-jupiter-spacecraft-solar-powered-by-akshat-rathi-quartz","title":{"rendered":"How the end of the Cold War forced NASA to make its Jupiter spacecraft solar-powered \u2014 By Akshat Rathi | Quartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pia20703.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft successfully entered an <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/723397\/the-incredible-things-that-had-to-go-just-right-for-juno-to-reach-jupiter\/\">orbit around Jupiter<\/a> \u2026 July 5 \u2026 . What\u2019s even more remarkable is that it will do all this with only four 100-watt bulbs worth of power, which it will capture from the Sun using its huge wings made of nearly 20,000 solar cells. The achievement makes Juno the farthest solar-powered spacecraft from the Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/724284\/how-the-end-of-the-cold-war-forced-nasa-to-make-its-jupiter-spacecraft-solar-powered\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft successfully entered an orbit around Jupiter \u2026 July 5 \u2026 . What\u2019s even more remarkable is that it will do all this with only four 100-watt bulbs worth of power, which it will capture from the Sun using its huge wings made of nearly 20,000 solar cells. The achievement makes Juno the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27566","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40871,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27566\/revisions\/40871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}