{"id":31108,"date":"2016-10-16T11:46:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T18:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/antimatter-probe-may-do-proxima-b-interstellar-flyby"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:08:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:08:47","slug":"antimatter-probe-may-do-proxima-b-interstellar-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/antimatter-probe-may-do-proxima-b-interstellar-flyby","title":{"rendered":"Antimatter Probe May Do Proxima b Interstellar Flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/antimatter-probe-may-do-proxima-b-interstellar-flyby.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An antimatter propulsion drive probe could be the first human-made spacecraft to orbit the newly-discovered extrasolar earthlike planet Proxima b. Or so says Gerald Jackson, the president of the Chicago-based Hbar technologies, whose antimatterdrive.org began a $200,000 Kickstarter campaign this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to use the fledgling antimatter propulsion technology to travel 4.2 light years to the newfound exo-earth circling Proxima Centauri, the Sun\u2019s nearest stellar neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur antimatter drive project proposes an initial mission taking as long as 90 years, traveling at 5% of the speed of light for the majority of that duration,\u201d Jackson, a former Fermilab physicist, told me. The hope is that the craft could eventually go into orbit around a nearby earthlike planet such as Proxima b.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/10\/15\/antimatter-probe-may-do-proxima-b-interstellar-flyby\/#2a8d88204b3b\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/10\/15\/antimat...8d88204b3b<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An antimatter propulsion drive probe could be the first human-made spacecraft to orbit the newly-discovered extrasolar earthlike planet Proxima b. Or so says Gerald Jackson, the president of the Chicago-based Hbar technologies, whose antimatterdrive.org began a $200,000 Kickstarter campaign this weekend. The idea is to use the fledgling antimatter propulsion technology to travel 4.2 light [\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-31108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31108","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=31108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65980,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31108\/revisions\/65980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}