{"id":28936,"date":"2016-08-14T23:46:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T06:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/nasa-researchers-are-working-on-a-laser-propulsion-system-that-could-get-to-mars-in-3-days"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:24:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:24:56","slug":"nasa-researchers-are-working-on-a-laser-propulsion-system-that-could-get-to-mars-in-3-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/nasa-researchers-are-working-on-a-laser-propulsion-system-that-could-get-to-mars-in-3-days","title":{"rendered":"NASA researchers are working on a laser propulsion system that could get to Mars in 3 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-researchers-are-working-on-a-laser-propulsion-system-that-could-get-to-mars-in-3-days.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The one thing still holding us back from interstellar travel is our slow spacecraft and researcher are working on solving this. With our present technology, it will take around five months to reach Mars. But NASA scientist Philip Lubin is working on a system where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepspace.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/A-Roadmap-to-Interstellar-Flight-15-d.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">lasers propel spaceship<\/a> with massive sails to the Red Planet in only a time period of three days.<\/p>\n<p><center><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-researchers-are-working-on-a-laser-propulsion-system-that-could-get-to-mars-in-3-days2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" border=\"0\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-researchers-are-working-on-a-laser-propulsion-system-that-could-get-to-mars-in-3-days2.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Pretty much like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics-astronomy.com\/2015\/01\/citizen-funded-lightsail-spacecraft.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Nye\u2019s much-hyped solar sail<\/a>, this \u2018photonic propulsion\u2019 system count on on the momentum of photons to move forward. But as an alternative of photons from the Sun\u2019s rays, Lubin\u2019s system would use a push by huge Earth-based lasers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics-astronomy.com\/2016\/02\/nasa-researchers-are-working-on-laser.html?m=1#.V7FXwnDKXCQ\">http:\/\/www.physics-astronomy.com\/2016\/02\/nasa-researchers-ar...7FXwnDKXCQ<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing still holding us back from interstellar travel is our slow spacecraft and researcher are working on solving this. With our present technology, it will take around five months to reach Mars. But NASA scientist Philip Lubin is working on a system where lasers propel spaceship with massive sails to the Red Planet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28936","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=28936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66578,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28936\/revisions\/66578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}