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Making Affordable Laser Pushed Sails With AI Optimization

November 25, 2024 by Brian Wang

There has been huge progress on laser pushed sails. Laser pushed sails appear to be a path to sending probes up to 20% of the speed of light when we can make 1 gram sails that are one to two meters on a side. There is still work needed to make the sail area about …

Nextbigfuture Discusses Laser Pushed Sails

January 19, 2024 by Brian Wang

Nextbigfuture has a weekly video review of the big stories in science and technology. The later part of the video discusses laser pushed sails for fast missions around the solar system and then interstellar missions. We have the laser technology that is sufficient to be used for laser pushed sail missions. They need to be …