{"id":32511,"date":"2016-12-10T01:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T09:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/nasas-working-on-a-nano-starship-that-travels-at-15-the-speed-of-light"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:59:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:59:33","slug":"nasas-working-on-a-nano-starship-that-travels-at-15-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/nasas-working-on-a-nano-starship-that-travels-at-15-the-speed-of-light","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Working on a Nano-Starship That Travels at 1\/5 the Speed of Light"},"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\/xRFXV4Z6x8s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In April, a team of scientists including Stephen Hawking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stephen-hawking-and-a-russian-billionaire-want-to-send-tiny-spacecraft-to-alpha-centauri\">announced a mind-boggling new project<\/a> to explore interstellar space, using lasers to propel a nano-spacecraft the size of a postage stamp to our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.<\/p>\n<p>If they could get their little \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/StarChip_(spacecraft)\">StarChip<\/a>\u2019 spacecraft to travel at 20 percent the speed of light, it could arrive in just 20 years. But how would the electronics on such a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/our-mission-to-alpha-centauri-could-be-jeopardised-by-dust-collisions\">tiny, vulnerable spacecraft<\/a> survive for 20 years in the hostility of space?<\/p>\n<p>The problem for Hawking\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Breakthrough_Starshot\">Breakthrough Starshot<\/a> project, say researchers at NASA and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, is radiation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-s-working-on-a-nano-starship-that-travels-at-1-5-the-speed-of-light\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-s-working-on-a-nano-starshi...d-of-light<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, a team of scientists including Stephen Hawking announced a mind-boggling new project to explore interstellar space, using lasers to propel a nano-spacecraft the size of a postage stamp to our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. If they could get their little \u2018StarChip\u2019 spacecraft to travel at 20 percent the speed of light, it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32511","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=32511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59526,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32511\/revisions\/59526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}