{"id":825890,"date":"2025-02-10T10:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/from-sci-fi-to-reality-laser-powered-sails-are-changing-the-future-of-space-travel\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T10:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:12:24","slug":"from-sci-fi-to-reality-laser-powered-sails-are-changing-the-future-of-space-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/from-sci-fi-to-reality-laser-powered-sails-are-changing-the-future-of-space-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"From Sci-Fi to Reality: Laser-Powered Sails Are Changing the Future of Space Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research focuses on understanding how ultrathin materials respond to radiation pressure, a critical step toward creating stable, high-speed space probes. The idea of using ultrathin sails to travel through interstellar space might sound like science fiction&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/from-sci-fi-to-reality-laser-powered-sails-are-changing-the-future-of-space-travel\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Kimm Fesenmaier, California Institute of Technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research focuses on understanding how ultrathin materials respond to radiation pressure, a critical step toward creating stable, high-speed space probes. The idea of using ultrathin sails to travel through interstellar space might sound like science fiction&#8230;Read MoreKimm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":825891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,4389,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-825890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reality","8":"category-sci-fi","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}