{"id":3135,"date":"2012-02-22T01:14:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T07:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2013-09-22T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T02:33:11","slug":"charged-up-electric-rockets-are-set-to-transform-space-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3135","title":{"rendered":"Electric Rockets Are Set to Transform Space Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.txchnologist.com\/2012\/charged-up-electric-rockets-are-set-to-transform-space-flight\">Charged Up: Electric Rockets Are Set to Transform Space Flight | Txchnologist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NASA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">Dawn space probe<\/a>, which is now exploring the asteroid Vesta, was among the first interplanetary craft to employ solar electric propulsion (SEP) for primary propulsion. But Dawn\u2019s three electric engines are rated at only 2.3 kW each (3 horsepower), about the power of a small lawnmower engine, which means which means they had to produce their low thrust for years to build up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/8579-nasa-spacecraft-breaks-speed-boost-record.html\">high velocity<\/a> needed to travel to the distant asteroid in a reasonable time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This tech is so cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charged Up: Electric Rockets Are Set to Transform Space Flight | Txchnologist. NASA\u2019s Dawn space probe, which is now exploring the asteroid Vesta, was among the first interplanetary craft to employ solar electric propulsion (SEP) for primary propulsion. But Dawn\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3135\">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":[1197,513,879],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-asteroids","tag-nasa","tag-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","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=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11156,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/11156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}