{"id":480,"date":"2003-08-02T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2003-08-02T18:09:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-08-02T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2003-08-02T18:09:31","slug":"ion-drives-science-fiction-or-science-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Ion drives: Science fiction or science fact?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction movie fans know that, if you want to travel short distances from your home planet, you would use a sublight &#8216;ion drive&#8217;. However, is such an ion drive science fiction, or science fact?<\/p>\n<p>More at:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/export\/esaCP\/SEM3JQXO4HD_index_0.html\"   target=\"_blank\"  ><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.esa.int\/export\/esaCP\/SEM3JQXO4HD_index_0.html  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>ESA&#8217;s SMART-1 mission, due for launch in late August 2003, will go to the Moon using ion propulsion.  Follow the launch at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/smart1\"   target=\"_blank\"  ><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.esa.int\/smart1  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction movie fans know that, if you want to travel short distances from your home planet, you would use a sublight &#8216;ion drive&#8217;. However, is such an ion drive&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}