Breakthrough Lightsail: Ultra-Thin, AI-Optimized, and Ready to Race to Alpha Centauri
A new collaboration between Brown University and TU Delft has brought us closer to interstellar travel using light-powered ...
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A sail to the stars: New ultra-thin lightsail could power future space travel
Scientists have taken an exciting step toward sending tiny spacecraft to other stars. A team from Brown University in the U.S ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN6 天
Ultra-thin lightsails with billions of tiny holes to enable high-speed space travel
Researchers have developed scalable lightsails, ultra-thin, reflective structures that use laser-driven radiation pressure to ...
The Debrief6 天
Lightsails That Can Travel 20% of The Speed of Light Move Closer to Reality
A new method for manufacturing lightsails that can reach up 20% of the speed of light is making the technology look more ...
Scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails developed for next-generation space exploration
Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support ...
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Measuring light sail performance in the lab
A new paper by researchers at Caltech published in Nature Photonics explores how to test what force a laser would have on a light sail as it travels to another star. The general concept of pushing ...
来自MSN2 个月
First steps taken toward developing interstellar lightsails
It needs to withstand heat, hold its shape under pressure, and ride stably along the axis of a laser beam," Atwater says. "But before we can begin building such a sail, we need to understand how ...