{"id":94292,"date":"2019-07-31T10:04:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/princeton-unveils-plasma-powered-satellite"},"modified":"2019-07-31T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:04:16","slug":"princeton-unveils-plasma-powered-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/princeton-unveils-plasma-powered-satellite","title":{"rendered":"Princeton Unveils Plasma-Powered Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/princeton-unveils-plasma-powered-satellite2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Future satellites could make their way deeper into space than ever before thanks to a new plasma-fueled thruster.<\/p>\n<p>The new thruster, built by engineers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, could open up a whole new realm of scientific research, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/26\/small-mighty-mini-plasma-powered-satellite-under-construction-may-launch-new-era\">Princeton press release<\/a>. That\u2019s because the thruster could finally give the tiny satellites <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/satellite-ride-share-space\">called CubeSats<\/a> the ability to move between the upper and lower bounds of orbit \u2014 a spectacular leap toward comprehensive orbital infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future satellites could make their way deeper into space than ever before thanks to a new plasma-fueled thruster. The new thruster, built by engineers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, could open up a whole new realm of scientific research, according to a Princeton press release. That\u2019s because the thruster could finally give the tiny [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94292","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}