{"id":708927,"date":"2021-11-19T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=708927"},"modified":"2021-11-19T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:20:01","slug":"lightsail-2-has-been-flying-for-30-months-now-paving-the-way-for-future-solar-sail-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=708927","title":{"rendered":"LightSail 2 has been flying for 30 months now, paving the way for future solar sail missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even after 30 months in space, The Planetary Society&#8217;s LightSail 2 mission continues to successfully &#8220;sail on sunbeams,&#8221; demonstrating solar sail technology in Earth orbit. The mission is providing hard data for future missions that hope to employ solar sails to explore the cosmos.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-11-lightsail-months-paving-future-solar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">LightSail 2 has been flying for 30 months now, paving the way for future solar sail missions<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even after 30 months in space, The Planetary Society&#8217;s LightSail 2 mission continues to successfully &#8220;sail on sunbeams,&#8221; demonstrating solar sail technology in Earth orbit. The mission is providing hard&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708927","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=708927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708927\/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=708927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}