{"id":90428,"date":"2019-05-08T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/experimental-cosmologist-group-launches-its-first-iterations-of-space-traveling-wafercraft"},"modified":"2019-05-08T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T16:22:23","slug":"experimental-cosmologist-group-launches-its-first-iterations-of-space-traveling-wafercraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/experimental-cosmologist-group-launches-its-first-iterations-of-space-traveling-wafercraft","title":{"rendered":"Experimental cosmologist group launches its first iterations of space-traveling \u2018wafercraft\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-cosmologist-group-launches-its-first-iterations-of-space-traveling-wafercraft2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are the adventures of the \u201cStarChip Wafersize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UC Santa Barbara students sent up, via balloon, a prototype miniature spacecraft that might eventually become the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.deepspace.ucsb.edu\/wafer-scale-spacecraft-flight-4-12-19\">wafercraft<\/a>\u201d that researchers posit could be propelled by lasers to achieve <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/space+travel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">space travel<\/a> at relativistic speeds to reach nearby star systems and exoplanets.<\/p>\n<p>So begins a journey, funded by NASA and several private foundations, that may one day lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/interstellar+travel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">interstellar travel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-experimental-cosmologist-group-iterations-space-traveling.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the adventures of the \u201cStarChip Wafersize.\u201d UC Santa Barbara students sent up, via balloon, a prototype miniature spacecraft that might eventually become the \u201cwafercraft\u201d that researchers posit could be propelled by lasers to achieve space travel at relativistic speeds to reach nearby star systems and exoplanets. So begins a journey, funded by NASA [\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-90428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90428","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=90428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}