{"id":725294,"date":"2010-04-28T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T15:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8988"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:30:26","slug":"solar-space-yacht-satellite-to-be-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/725294","title":{"rendered":"Solar \u2018Space Yacht\u2019 Satellite to Be Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/ikaros1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9011\" title=\"ikaros\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/ikaros1-300x285.jpg?resize=505%2C471\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"471\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan plans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-04-27\/japan-to-launch-space-yacht-propelled-by-giant-solar-sail.html\" >launch a satellite <\/a>powered by a\u00a0 large solar sail for a six month mission.\u00a0 A \u00a0solar sail captures the momentum of photons from the sun to propel the satellite, something like the manner in which a sailboat moves due to the thrust of wind. In this case, solar cells on the sail will generate electricity for propulsion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/28\/solar-space-yacht-satellite-to-be-launched\/#more-8988\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan plans to launch a satellite powered by a\u00a0 large solar sail for a six month mission.\u00a0 A \u00a0solar sail captures the momentum of photons from the sun to propel the satellite, something like the manner in which a sailboat moves due to the thrust of wind. In this case, solar cells on the sail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":628,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32Gi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826948,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725294\/revisions\/826948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}