From Sci-Fi to Reality: Laser-Powered Sails Are Changing the Future of Space Travel
Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research ...
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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 ...
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A New Advance in Light Sails for Interstellar Travel
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” for spacecraft propulsion. A program started in 2016 by ...
‘SPACE’ asks what it meant for female astronauts to have a dream deferred
When it comes to life’s most ambitious goals, the journey to achieving them might be as important, if not more so, than the ...
‘Rationalist Fleet’: Before killings linked to fringe group, ‘Ziz’ led fateful tugboat voyage to California
Before string of killings linked to fringe group, Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota led fateful tugboat voyage from Alaska to California ...
The Agony, The Ecstasy, And Why, Despite Some Waffling, I Still Say 'Buy' For Tesla
Tesla, Inc. stock, resisting a temptation to downgrade due to promising autonomy ventures despite high valuation. Read more ...
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Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it?
With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system ... “It’s not science fiction,” Manchester says.