{"id":10456,"date":"2013-06-27T14:43:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10456"},"modified":"2013-06-27T14:43:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:43:35","slug":"nasas-next-ion-thruster-runs-five-and-a-half-years-nonstop-to-set-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10456","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s NEXT ion thruster runs five and a half years nonstop to set new record"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>NEXT is a solar electric propulsion system where electricity from the spacecraft\u2019s solar panels is used to power a a 7-kW class ion thruster. In this, particles of xenon gas are electrically charged and then accelerated to speeds up to 90,000 mph (145,000 km\/h). Such thrusters have already been used on spacecraft, such as NASA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/dawn-departs-vesta\/24042\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dawn probe<\/a>, and engineers are very interested in them because of their much higher performance compared to conventional chemical rocket engines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/next-ion-thruster-duration-record\/28067\/\">NASA&#8217;s NEXT ion thruster runs five and a half years nonstop to set new record<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEXT is a solar electric propulsion system where electricity from the spacecraft\u2019s solar panels is used to power a a 7-kW class ion thruster. In this, particles of xenon gas are electrically charged and then accelerated to speeds up to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10456\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[513,879,512],"class_list":["post-10456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-nasa","tag-rocket-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}