{"id":73301,"date":"2017-10-14T22:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T05:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/beaming-laser-power-to-ion-drive-is-300-400-times-more-thrust-than-just-laser-photonic-sail"},"modified":"2017-10-14T22:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T05:42:33","slug":"beaming-laser-power-to-ion-drive-is-300-400-times-more-thrust-than-just-laser-photonic-sail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/beaming-laser-power-to-ion-drive-is-300-400-times-more-thrust-than-just-laser-photonic-sail","title":{"rendered":"Beaming laser power to ion drive is 300\u2013400 times more thrust than just laser photonic sail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beaming-laser-power-to-ion-drive-is-300-400-times-more-thrust-than-just-laser-photonic-sail2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 100 meter to 150 meter solar array that is attuned to the lithium ion will be about 70% efficient.<\/p>\n<p>JPL is working on the gridded lithium ion arrays to achieve 60,000 ISP.<\/p>\n<p>There is work on 60 meter deployable solar arrays.<\/p>\n<p>This system will achieve a speed of about 260 kilometers per second (almost 0.01% of light speed) and enable the fast 10\u201312 year mission to 500 AU gravitational lens and manned missions to Jupiter in 1 year travel time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/10\/beaming-laser-power-to-ion-drive-is-300-400-times-more-thrust-than-just-laser-photonic-sail.html\">https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/10\/beaming-laser-power-to...-sail.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 100 meter to 150 meter solar array that is attuned to the lithium ion will be about 70% efficient. JPL is working on the gridded lithium ion arrays to achieve 60,000 ISP. There is work on 60 meter deployable solar arrays. This system will achieve a speed of about 260 kilometers per second (almost [\u2026]<\/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-73301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73301","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=73301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}