{"id":71343,"date":"2017-07-28T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T18:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/stephen-hawking-is-one-step-closer-to-reaching-alpha-centauri"},"modified":"2017-07-28T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T18:42:13","slug":"stephen-hawking-is-one-step-closer-to-reaching-alpha-centauri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/stephen-hawking-is-one-step-closer-to-reaching-alpha-centauri","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking Is One Step Closer To Reaching Alpha Centauri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stephen-hawking-is-one-step-closer-to-reaching-alpha-centauri2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Breakthrough Starshot, the Stephen Hawking-backed attempt to reach Alpha Centauri, has successfully flown its first ever spacecraft \u2013 the smallest ever launched.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/pictures\/57111794e4b045e86b219135\/nanocraft\/#72cfea641d7d\" target=\"_self\">the $100-million-dollar research program<\/a> in April 2016, aiming to show that light-propelled spacecraft could fly at 20% of light speed and reach the next nearest galaxy just 20 years after their launch.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a number of their prototype \u201cSprites\u201d tiny fully functional space probes built on a single circuit board, achieved Low Earth Orbit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bridaineparnell\/2017\/07\/28\/stephen-hawking-is-one-step-closer-to-reaching-alpha-centauri\/#6bc57fdc7936\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bridaineparnell\/2017\/07\/28\/step...c57fdc7936<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakthrough Starshot, the Stephen Hawking-backed attempt to reach Alpha Centauri, has successfully flown its first ever spacecraft \u2013 the smallest ever launched. Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner announced the $100-million-dollar research program in April 2016, aiming to show that light-propelled spacecraft could fly at 20% of light speed and reach the next nearest galaxy just [\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-71343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71343","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=71343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}