{"id":75858,"date":"2018-02-09T13:02:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/5d-storage-crystal-joins-tesla-roadster-on-incredible-space-journey"},"modified":"2018-02-09T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:02:37","slug":"5d-storage-crystal-joins-tesla-roadster-on-incredible-space-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/5d-storage-crystal-joins-tesla-roadster-on-incredible-space-journey","title":{"rendered":"5D storage crystal joins Tesla Roadster on incredible space journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5d-storage-crystal-joins-tesla-roadster-on-incredible-space-journey2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The successful launch of the new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, by SpaceX from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida into a Mars orbit around the Sun, has captured the world\u2019s imagination and attention mainly because of its power but also because of its payload.<\/p>\n<p>Famously aboard the spacecraft is a Tesla Roadster, owned by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, but joining the bright red sports car on its journey around our solar system is the Arch Library, created using 5D optical storage technology developed by Professor Peter Kazansky and his team at the University of Southampton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orc.soton.ac.uk\/\">Optoelectronics Research Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This first Arch library (pronounced Ark) \u2013 known as the Solar Library \u2014 contains the Foundation Trilogy of science fiction books written by Elon Musk\u2019s favourite American author, Isaac Asimov\u2026 Archs are the vision of the Arch Mission Foundation which wants to permanently preserve and disseminate human knowledge as part of an \u2018Encyclopedia Galactica\u2019 across time and space for the benefit of future generations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/news\/2018\/02\/spacex-5d-crystal.page\">https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/news\/2018\/02\/spacex-5d-crystal.page<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The successful launch of the new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, by SpaceX from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida into a Mars orbit around the Sun, has captured the world\u2019s imagination and attention mainly because of its power but also because of its payload. Famously aboard the spacecraft is a Tesla Roadster, owned by SpaceX [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75858","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}