{"id":93230,"date":"2019-07-07T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-to-track-the-lightsail-2-as-it-sails-around-earth"},"modified":"2019-07-07T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T19:22:25","slug":"how-to-track-the-lightsail-2-as-it-sails-around-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-to-track-the-lightsail-2-as-it-sails-around-earth","title":{"rendered":"How to Track the LightSail 2 as It \u2018Sails\u2019 Around Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-track-the-lightsail-2-as-it-sails-around-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/explore\/projects\/lightsail-solar-sailing\/#the-spacecraft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the LightSail 2<\/a> officially made its first contact with Earth. The solar-powered spacecraft will be sailing around Earth\u2019s orbit for the next year, all part of a mission to prove that solar sailing is a viable mode of space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, the hope is that solar sailing could be used in other spacecraft going forward, something that could allow us to explore further in space at a lower cost than is currently possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the LightSail 2 officially made its first contact with Earth. The solar-powered spacecraft will be sailing around Earth\u2019s orbit for the next year, all part of a mission to prove that solar sailing is a viable mode of space exploration. If successful, the hope is that solar sailing could be used in other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93230","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}