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Researchers develop new design and fabrication method to make lightsails for interstellar travelIn a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...
Lightsails should enable space missions to other stars. Researchers from the USA and the Netherlands have significantly ...
Scientists have taken an exciting step toward sending tiny spacecraft to other stars. A team from Brown University in the U.S ...
Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support ...
A new method for manufacturing lightsails that can reach up 20% of the speed of light is making the technology look more ...
How can lightsail technology advance to help humanity travel to other star systems? This is what a recent study published in ...
Since its launch in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled over 15 billion miles into deep space. That’s a long way — but it’s not even 1% of the distance to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star ...
A process for designing ultra-thin membranes with billions of nanoscale holes may one day help small spacecraft reach the stars. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Since its launch in 1977 ...
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