{"id":79675,"date":"2018-06-17T11:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T18:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/combining-laser-and-particle-beams-for-interstellar-travel"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:04:54","slug":"combining-laser-and-particle-beams-for-interstellar-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/combining-laser-and-particle-beams-for-interstellar-travel","title":{"rendered":"Combining Laser And Particle Beams For Interstellar Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/combining-laser-and-particle-beams-for-interstellar-travel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By jan mcharg, texas A&amp;M university college of engineering <\/p>\n<p>A new technology combining a laser beam and a particle beam for interstellar propulsion could pave the way for space exploration into the vast corners of our universe. This is the focus of PROCSIMA, a new research proposal by <a href=\"https:\/\/ldpdl.engr.tamu.edu\/\">Dr. Chris Limbach<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pdml.tamu.edu\/\">Dr. Ken Hara<\/a>, assistant professors in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&amp;M University.<\/p>\n<p>NASA has chosen the proposal \u201cPROCSIMA: Diffractionless Beam Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions,\u201d for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/niac\/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II\">2018 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) phase 1 study<\/a>. PROCSIMA stands for Photon-paRticle Optically Coupled Soliton Interstellar Mission Accelerator, and is meant to evoke the idea that interstellar travel is not so far away.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/today.tamu.edu\/2018\/05\/11\/combining-laser-and-particle-beams-for-interstellar-travel\/\">https:\/\/today.tamu.edu\/2018\/05\/11\/combining-laser-and-partic...ar-travel\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By jan mcharg, texas A&amp;M university college of engineering A new technology combining a laser beam and a particle beam for interstellar propulsion could pave the way for space exploration into the vast corners of our universe. This is the focus of PROCSIMA, a new research proposal by Dr. Chris Limbach and Dr. Ken Hara, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79675","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=79675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79789,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79675\/revisions\/79789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}