{"id":85862,"date":"2018-12-15T08:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T16:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/scientists-are-creating-a-laser-so-powerful-it-could-get-a-probe-to-mars-in-days"},"modified":"2018-12-15T08:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T16:42:35","slug":"scientists-are-creating-a-laser-so-powerful-it-could-get-a-probe-to-mars-in-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/scientists-are-creating-a-laser-so-powerful-it-could-get-a-probe-to-mars-in-days","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Creating a Laser So Powerful It Could Get a Probe to Mars in Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-creating-a-laser-so-powerful-it-could-get-a-probe-to-mars-in-days.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An initiative called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/starshot-alpha-centauri-robots-stephen-hawking-yuri-milner-2016-4\">Breakthrough Starshot<\/a> wants to explore another star system using ultra-powerful laser beams and wafer-thin spaceships.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a goal that sounds so fantastic, you\u2019d be forgiven for dismissing it as science fiction. But it\u2019s no joke, and the project\u2019s chief engineer says millions of dollars\u2019 worth of work is moving along without any major snags.<\/p>\n<p>Starshot\u2019s founders and collaborators include the late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stephen-hawking-how-the-physicist-inspired-my-career-2018-3\">Stephen Hawking<\/a>, Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb, and Russian-American billionaire Yuri Milner. The concept is based on more than 80 <a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughinitiatives.org\/research\/3\">scientific studies<\/a> about interstellar travel.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-are-creating-a-laser-that-could-propel-a-probe-to-another-star-system\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-are-creating-a-laser...tar-system<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An initiative called Breakthrough Starshot wants to explore another star system using ultra-powerful laser beams and wafer-thin spaceships. It\u2019s a goal that sounds so fantastic, you\u2019d be forgiven for dismissing it as science fiction. But it\u2019s no joke, and the project\u2019s chief engineer says millions of dollars\u2019 worth of work is moving along without any [\u2026]<\/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-85862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85862","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=85862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}