{"id":3925759,"date":"2026-05-01T12:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-lithium-plasma-engine-passes-key-mars-propulsion-test\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:06:48","slug":"new-lithium-plasma-engine-passes-key-mars-propulsion-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-lithium-plasma-engine-passes-key-mars-propulsion-test\/","title":{"rendered":"New lithium-plasma engine passes key Mars propulsion test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>You&#8217;re on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you&#8217;re told the Odyssey spacecraft designed to take you there will be the smoothest ride you&#8217;ll ever take. It features a newly christened electric propulsion engine which was in the late stages of testing during the first three missions. The mission starts and the spacecraft travels at a crawl, and you wonder if it&#8217;s broken. A week goes by and you&#8217;re now traveling at more than 400,000 kilometers (250,000 miles) per hour, and your mind is blown as to how fast you&#8217;re going, how quickly that happened, and that this mission might be more awesome than you thought.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-lithium-plasma-key-mars-propulsion.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you&#8217;re told the Odyssey spacecraft designed to take you there will be the smoothest ride you&#8217;ll ever take. It features a newly christened electric propulsion engine which was in the late stages of testing during the first three missions. The mission starts and the spacecraft travels [&#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-3925759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}