{"id":3925693,"date":"2026-04-28T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/nasa-fires-up-powerful-lithium-fed-thruster-for-trips-to-mars\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:03:13","slug":"nasa-fires-up-powerful-lithium-fed-thruster-for-trips-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/nasa-fires-up-powerful-lithium-fed-thruster-for-trips-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA fires up powerful lithium-fed thruster for trips to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to the test at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. On Feb. 24, for the first time in years and at power levels exceeding any previous test in the United States, a team fired up an electromagnetic thruster that runs on lithium metal vapor.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-nasa-powerful-lithium-fed-thruster.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to the test at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. On Feb. 24, for the first time in years and at power levels exceeding any previous test in the United States, a team fired up [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}