{"id":78538,"date":"2018-05-09T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/building-sails-for-tiny-interstellar-probes-will-be-tough-but-not-impossible"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:24:04","slug":"building-sails-for-tiny-interstellar-probes-will-be-tough-but-not-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/building-sails-for-tiny-interstellar-probes-will-be-tough-but-not-impossible","title":{"rendered":"Building Sails for Tiny Interstellar Probes Will Be Tough \u2014 But Not Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-sails-for-tiny-interstellar-probes-will-be-tough-but-not-impossible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giant lasers may indeed launch fleets of spacecraft to <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.space.com\/18090-alpha-centauri-nearest-star-system.html\">Alpha Centauri<\/a>, given breakthroughs in the science behind extraordinarily thin, incredibly reflective sails that can catch this laser light, a new study finds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.space.com\/40512-breatkthrough-starshot-interstellar-sail-technology.html?__twitter_impression=true\">https:\/\/amp.space.com\/40512-breatkthrough-starshot-interstel...ssion=true<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant lasers may indeed launch fleets of spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, given breakthroughs in the science behind extraordinarily thin, incredibly reflective sails that can catch this laser light, a new study finds.<\/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-78538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78538","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=78538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}