{"id":80844,"date":"2018-07-22T02:02:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T09:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/propelling-deep-space-flight-with-a-new-fuel-source-momentus-prepares-for-liftoff"},"modified":"2018-07-22T02:02:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T09:02:49","slug":"propelling-deep-space-flight-with-a-new-fuel-source-momentus-prepares-for-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/propelling-deep-space-flight-with-a-new-fuel-source-momentus-prepares-for-liftoff","title":{"rendered":"Propelling deep space flight with a new fuel source, Momentus prepares for liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/propelling-deep-space-flight-with-a-new-fuel-source-momentus-prepares-for-liftoff2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mikhail Kokorich, the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/momentus.space\/\">Momentus<\/a>, a new Y Combinator-backed propulsion technology developer for space flight, hadn\u2019t always dreamed of going to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>A physicist who graduated from Russia\u2019s top-ranked Novosibirsk University, Kokorich was a serial entrepreneur in who grew up in Siberia and made his name and his first fortunes in the years after the fall of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>The heart of Momentus\u2019 technology is a new propulsion system that uses water as a propellant instead of chemicals.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/21\/propelling-deep-space-flight-with-a-new-fuel-source-momentus-prepares-for-liftoff\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/21\/propelling-deep-space-flig...r-liftoff\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikhail Kokorich, the founder of Momentus, a new Y Combinator-backed propulsion technology developer for space flight, hadn\u2019t always dreamed of going to the moon. A physicist who graduated from Russia\u2019s top-ranked Novosibirsk University, Kokorich was a serial entrepreneur in who grew up in Siberia and made his name and his first fortunes in the years [\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-80844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80844","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=80844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}