{"id":72312,"date":"2017-09-03T00:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T07:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/heres-how-to-get-to-alpha-centauri-propel-a-tiny-spacecraft-on-the-tip-of-a-powerful-laser-beam"},"modified":"2017-09-04T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T23:11:07","slug":"heres-how-to-get-to-alpha-centauri-propel-a-tiny-spacecraft-on-the-tip-of-a-powerful-laser-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/heres-how-to-get-to-alpha-centauri-propel-a-tiny-spacecraft-on-the-tip-of-a-powerful-laser-beam","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how to get to Alpha Centauri: propel a tiny spacecraft on the tip of a powerful laser beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-to-get-to-alpha-centauri-propel-a-tiny-spacecraft-on-the-tip-of-a-powerful-laser-beam2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Andromeda interstellar probe article has been featured in MlT Technology Review :<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Business Impact.<\/p>\n<p>Femto-spacecraft could travel to alpha centauri. <\/p>\n<p>Earth\u2019s nearest exoplanet twin orbits a star about four light years from here. Now scientists say it\u2019s possible to visit this system in our lifetimes by propelling a tiny spacecraft on the tip of a laser beam.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-bottom:0px;\" class=\"\"><\/ul>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/608731\/femto-spacecraft-could-travel-to-alpha-centauri\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/608731\/femto-spacecraft-c...-centauri\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Andromeda interstellar probe article has been featured in MlT Technology Review : Business Impact. Femto-spacecraft could travel to alpha centauri. Earth\u2019s nearest exoplanet twin orbits a star about four light years from here. Now scientists say it\u2019s possible to visit this system in our lifetimes by propelling a tiny spacecraft on the tip of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72312","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\/439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72340,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72312\/revisions\/72340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}