{"id":98441,"date":"2019-11-13T06:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/this-stingray-shaped-spacecraft-could-be-perfect-for-exploring-venus-dark-side"},"modified":"2019-11-13T06:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:42:38","slug":"this-stingray-shaped-spacecraft-could-be-perfect-for-exploring-venus-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/this-stingray-shaped-spacecraft-could-be-perfect-for-exploring-venus-dark-side","title":{"rendered":"This Stingray-Shaped Spacecraft Could Be Perfect For Exploring Venus\u2019 Dark Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-stingray-shaped-spacecraft-could-be-perfect-for-exploring-venus-dark-side.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers are designing a stingray-shaped spacecraft to explore the dark side of Venus.<\/p>\n<p>(Image: \u00a9 CRASH Lab, University at Buffalo) <\/p>\n<p>Could a stingray-shaped spacecraft get to the dark side of Venus by flapping its wings?<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Buffalo (UB) are designing a spacecraft shaped like a stingray that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/we-could-go-to-venus-today.html\" target=\"_blank\"> could explore Venus<\/a> in ways never before possible. The craft, designed as part of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/niac\/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II\/breeze\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Bio-inspired Ray for Extreme Environments and Zonal Explorations (BREEZE) project<\/a>, is one of 12 selected by NASA for the agency\u2019s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which supports new, innovative technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are designing a stingray-shaped spacecraft to explore the dark side of Venus. (Image: \u00a9 CRASH Lab, University at Buffalo) Could a stingray-shaped spacecraft get to the dark side of Venus by flapping its wings? Researchers at the University of Buffalo (UB) are designing a spacecraft shaped like a stingray that could explore Venus in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98441","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=98441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}