{"id":159800,"date":"2026-11-05T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159800"},"modified":"2026-11-05T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:59:10","slug":"china-proves-a-cut-above-with-world-first-precision-laser-experiment-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159800","title":{"rendered":"China proves a cut above with world-first precision laser experiment in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s space scientists have become the first to carry out precision laser cutting in orbit, slicing a piece of \u201clarge-scale equipment\u201d with a robotic arm fixed to the outside the Tiangong space station.<br \/>\nThe official Science and Technology Daily reported on Wednesday that millimetre-scale cuts were made by a laser maintenance device operated remotely from \u201chundreds of kilometres away\u201d.<br \/>\nPrecision laser cutting involves focusing a beam of light to slice or melt material with extreme accuracy, a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3373411\/china-proves-cut-above-world-first-precision-laser-experiment-space\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s space scientists have become the first to carry out precision laser cutting in orbit, slicing a piece of \u201clarge-scale equipment\u201d with a robotic&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}