{"id":34017,"date":"2017-02-01T14:25:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T22:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/stephen-hawking-discusses-breakthrough-starshot"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:55:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:55:21","slug":"stephen-hawking-discusses-breakthrough-starshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/stephen-hawking-discusses-breakthrough-starshot","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking Discusses Breakthrough Starshot"},"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\/Lfl0uUA6MYc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Breakthrough Starshot, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/breakthroughinitiatives.org\">http:\/\/breakthroughinitiatives.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the fifty-fifth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin\u2019s great leap into space, April 12, 2016, Yuri Milner was joined by Stephen Hawking at New York\u2019s One World Observatory to announce Breakthrough Starshot, which will lay the foundations for humanity\u2019s next great leap: to the stars. It was also announced that Mark Zuckerberg joined the board of the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Breakthrough Starshot is a $100 million research and development program, aiming to establish proof of concept for a \u2018nanocraft\u2019 \u2013 a fully functional space probe at gram-scale weight \u2013 driven by a light beam. A spacecraft like this, equipped with a lightsail, has the potential to reach twenty percent of the speed of light \u2013 or 100 million miles an hour. At that speed, it could reach Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, in around 20 years. Using the fastest conventional rocket propulsion system available, the same journey would take tens of thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>This new scientific initiative is committed to international collaboration, open access and open data. It aims to represent all of humanity as one world, stepping out into the galaxy within a generation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lfl0uUA6MYc&amp;feature=youtu.be\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lfl0uUA6MYc&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To learn more about Breakthrough Starshot, visit http:\/\/breakthroughinitiatives.org. On the fifty-fifth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin\u2019s great leap into space, April 12, 2016, Yuri Milner was joined by Stephen Hawking at New York\u2019s One World Observatory to announce Breakthrough Starshot, which will lay the foundations for humanity\u2019s next great leap: to the stars. It was also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34017","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49127,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34017\/revisions\/49127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}