{"id":34045,"date":"2017-02-02T10:02:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/tiny-spacecraft-could-brake-at-exoplanet-using-alien-starlight"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:52:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:52:12","slug":"tiny-spacecraft-could-brake-at-exoplanet-using-alien-starlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/tiny-spacecraft-could-brake-at-exoplanet-using-alien-starlight","title":{"rendered":"Tiny spacecraft could brake at exoplanet using alien starlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-spacecraft-could-brake-at-exoplanet-using-alien-starlight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lightweight solar sails could bring spacecraft to the nearest star in just 20 years \u2013 but hitting the brakes will be challenging. A new paper suggests using the stars themselves to park around their planets.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2120010-tiny-spacecraft-could-brake-at-exoplanet-using-alien-starlight\/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Facebook&utm_term=Autofeed&cmpid=SOC%257CNSNS%257C2017-Echobox\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2120010-tiny-spacecraft...17-Echobox<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightweight solar sails could bring spacecraft to the nearest star in just 20 years \u2013 but hitting the brakes will be challenging. A new paper suggests using the stars themselves to park around their planets.<\/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-34045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34045","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=34045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58914,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34045\/revisions\/58914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}