{"id":82874,"date":"2018-09-21T12:22:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T19:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/scientists-receive-1-3-million-to-study-new-propulsion-idea-for-spacecraft"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:24:05","slug":"scientists-receive-1-3-million-to-study-new-propulsion-idea-for-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/scientists-receive-1-3-million-to-study-new-propulsion-idea-for-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"Scientists receive $1.3 million to study new propulsion idea for spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fnNKC82wUmY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spacecraft and satellites could in future be launched into space without the need for fuel, thanks to a revolutionary new theory.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mike McCulloch, from the University of Plymouth, first put forward the idea of quantised inertia (QI) \u2013 through which he believes light can be converted into thrust \u2013 in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>He has now received $1.3million from the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a four-year study which aims to make the concept a reality.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/news\/scientists-receive-13-million-to-study-new-propulsion-idea-for-spacecraft\">https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/news\/scientists-receive-13-millio...spacecraft<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacecraft and satellites could in future be launched into space without the need for fuel, thanks to a revolutionary new theory. Dr Mike McCulloch, from the University of Plymouth, first put forward the idea of quantised inertia (QI) \u2013 through which he believes light can be converted into thrust \u2013 in 2007. He has now [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82874","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=82874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83051,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82874\/revisions\/83051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}