{"id":34047,"date":"2017-02-02T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/100-million-breakthrough-starshot-small-interstellar-probe-project-will-start-funding-technological-development-in-a-few-months"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:52:07","slug":"100-million-breakthrough-starshot-small-interstellar-probe-project-will-start-funding-technological-development-in-a-few-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/100-million-breakthrough-starshot-small-interstellar-probe-project-will-start-funding-technological-development-in-a-few-months","title":{"rendered":"$100 million Breakthrough Starshot small interstellar probe project will start funding technological development in a few months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/100-million-breakthrough-starshot-small-interstellar-probe-project-will-start-funding-technological-development-in-a-few-months.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/what-it-would-take-to-reach-the-stars-1.21402\" target=\"blank\">The Breakthrough Starshot is an effort backed by US$100 million from Russian investor Yuri Milner to vastly accelerate research and development of an interstellar space probe.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the mission plan to start funding technology-development projects within months, with the aim of launching a fleet of tiny, laser-propelled probes in the next 20 years. The effort would ultimately cost about $10 billion, leaders hope, and take another 20 years to reach Alpha Centauri.<\/p>\n<p>The first truly challenging step in any mission such as Breakthrough Starshot is to accelerate the spacecraft to interstellar velocities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/02\/100-million-breakthrough-starshot-small.html\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/02\/100-million-breakthroug...small.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Breakthrough Starshot is an effort backed by US$100 million from Russian investor Yuri Milner to vastly accelerate research and development of an interstellar space probe. Leaders of the mission plan to start funding technology-development projects within months, with the aim of launching a fleet of tiny, laser-propelled probes in the next 20 years. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34047","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=34047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58912,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34047\/revisions\/58912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}