{"id":29119,"date":"2016-08-19T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-starshot-will-get-us-to-alpha-centauri-in-20-years"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:55:43","slug":"how-starshot-will-get-us-to-alpha-centauri-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-starshot-will-get-us-to-alpha-centauri-in-20-years","title":{"rendered":"How Starshot will get us to Alpha Centauri in 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hgatMcul2zw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Travelling into the darkest depths of the universe could soon be as easy as flicking on a switch, or at least a switch for a giant laser system that will fire a spacecraft at 150m kmph to Alpha Centauri.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April 2016, the philanthropic research group Breakthrough Initiatives announced it was putting millions of dollars into developing a <a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughinitiatives.org\/Initiative\/3\" target=\"_blank\">spacecraft<\/a> capable of reaching Alpha Centauri in the next 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>This would be some claim given that, despite it being our nearest neighbouring star, it\u2019s located more than four light years away.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/innovation\/alpha-centauri-starshot-avi-loeb\">https:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/innovation\/alpha-centauri-starshot-avi-loeb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelling into the darkest depths of the universe could soon be as easy as flicking on a switch, or at least a switch for a giant laser system that will fire a spacecraft at 150m kmph to Alpha Centauri. Back in April 2016, the philanthropic research group Breakthrough Initiatives announced it was putting millions of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60720,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119\/revisions\/60720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}