{"id":28450,"date":"2026-07-14T00:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/07\/14\/the-strange-force-that-could-slow-interstellar-solar-sails-6\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:14:14","slug":"the-strange-force-that-could-slow-interstellar-solar-sails-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/07\/14\/the-strange-force-that-could-slow-interstellar-solar-sails-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Force That Could Slow Interstellar Solar Sails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/the-strange-force-that-could-slow-interstellar-solar-sails\/\" title=\"The Strange Force That Could Slow Interstellar Solar Sails\"><\/a>Solar sails may encounter drag from light itself as they approach a significant fraction of the speed. Getting a spacecraft to another star is not simply a matter of building a bigger rocket. Chemical propulsion is far too slow for interstellar travel on practical timescales, which is why many mission concepts turn to light itself [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar sails may encounter drag from light itself as they approach a significant fraction of the speed. Getting a spacecraft to another star is not simply a matter of building a bigger rocket. Chemical propulsion is far too slow for interstellar travel on practical timescales, which is why many mission concepts turn to light itself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/07\/14\/the-strange-force-that-could-slow-interstellar-solar-sails-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Strange Force That Could Slow Interstellar Solar Sails&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}