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Tiny spacecraft could travel across interstellar space with this 'trampoline' lightsail
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have taken a major step toward developing lightsails that could one day ...
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Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough
The idea of a lightsail comes from the fact that radiation pressure represents a mechanical pressure acting on a surface due ...
Caltech’s Lightsail Experiment Brings Interstellar Travel Closer to Reality
Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for ...
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Lightsail propulsion could enable interstellar travel at speeds never before imagined
Scientists are developing miniature lightsails that could travel at unprecedented speeds, potentially enabling interstellar ...
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Next-Generation Spacecraft: How Caltech is Making Lightsails a Reality
Can lightsails be the future of deep space exploration? This is what a recent study published in Nature Photonics hopes to address as a team of researchers | Space ...
First steps taken toward developing interstellar lightsails
The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and ...
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Caltech Researchers Take First Experimental Steps Toward Lightsails that Could Reach Distant Star Systems (IMAGE)
The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and ...
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A New Advance in Light Sails for Interstellar Travel
The idea of lightsails is something out of science fiction. As early as the 1950s and ‘60s, science fiction writers John Campbell, Arthur C. Clarke and others were toying with the idea of “solar sails ...