{"id":655316,"date":"2020-05-19T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=655316"},"modified":"2020-05-19T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:32:00","slug":"ultra-thin-sail-could-speed-journey-to-other-star-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=655316","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-thin sail could speed journey to other star systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Graphene_sail_in_microgravity_card_full.gif\" alt=\"Graphene sail in microgravity\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A tiny sail made of the thinnest material known \u2013 one carbon-atom-thick graphene \u2013 has passed initial tests designed to show that it could be a viable material to make solar sails for spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Ultra-thin_sail_could_speed_journey_to_other_star_systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ultra-thin sail could speed journey to other star systems<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny sail made of the thinnest material known \u2013 one carbon-atom-thick graphene \u2013 has passed initial tests designed to show that it could be a viable material to make&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":655317,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655316","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\/655316","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=655316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/655317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}