Laser pushed sails—ultrathin need reflective structures that are square meters but weight a gram. If the sails and the ...

In high school he became obsessed with the idea of laser sails after reading the novel The Mote in God’s Eye written by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven in 1974, which describes a sail that uses ...

This involves measuring the incredibly subtle movements of the sail as it’s struck by the laser beam. These experiments are ...

BALBOA ISLAND -- Sitting on the sand in front of South Bayfront, the unadorned hull of a laser sailboat looks almost comically simple. About 12 feet long, just a few feet wide and done up in ...

Science fiction franchises like Star Trek are unlikely to swap out warp drive for laser sail fleets of starships, but if they ever did, Johnson points out that the biggest problem with solar sails ...

A swarm of tiny spacecraft propelled by a powerful laser could enable us to more rapidly ... other planets and stars is by using a light sail, a thin material that can be pushed through space ...

Join the 50th Anniversary Irish ILCA National Championships at Ballyholme on 14-15 August for a weekend of sailing and ...

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