{"id":13265,"date":"2011-11-02T13:48:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=13265"},"modified":"2016-09-11T04:19:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T11:19:18","slug":"nasa-attempting-to-develop-tractor-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/11\/nasa-attempting-to-develop-tractor-beam\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Attempting To Develop Tractor Beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a case of life imitating art, NASA is trying to develop a tractor beam.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center have received funding for a project to see if lasers can be used to capture stardust. The tests will be conducted on robotic space missions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/TractorBeam110211.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13266\" title=\"TractorBeam110211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/TractorBeam110211.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Though a mainstay in science fiction, and <em>Star Trek<\/em> in particular, laser-based trapping isn&#8217;t fanciful or beyond current technological know-how,&#8221; said <strong>Paul Stysley<\/strong>, a laser engineer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.<\/p>\n<p>The original thought was for a tractor beam that did a little more, but reality soon intruded. &#8220;The original thought was that we could use tractor beams for cleaning up orbital debris,&#8221; Stysley added. &#8220;But to pull something that huge would be almost impossible, at least now. That&#8217;s when it bubbled up that perhaps we could use the same approach for sample collection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two types of beams, solenoid beams and Bessle beams are being studied. Thus far, tests using the solenoid beams have proven to be the most successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a case of life imitating art, NASA is trying to develop a tractor beam&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4351],"tags":[2698,3827,3826],"class_list":["post-13265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-star-trek","tag-nasa","tag-stysley","tag-tractor-beam"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/general-star-trek\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General Star Trek<\/a>","tag_info":"General Star Trek","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13267,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265\/revisions\/13267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}