INNOVATOR Q&A At Brown, engineers work on laser-powered lightsails that could make it to Mars in hours instead of months A highly reflective lightsail pushed by light energy in the same way ...

Nature Communications – Pentagonal photonic crystal mirrors: scalable lightsails with enhanced acceleration via neural topology optimization. The Starshot Breakthrough Initiative aims to send ...

Delft University of Technology, (TU Delft) was established in 1842 in Delft, The Netherlands. As of 2007, TU Delft is the largest and most prolific in terms of research publications in the broad ...

Metamaterials are engineered structures designed to interact with electromagnetic radiation in a desired fashion. They usually comprise an array of structures smaller than the wavelength of ...

Lightsails Could Reach Distant Star Systems; Thursday, January 30, 2025. New Diagnostic Tool Will Help LIGO Hunt Gravitational Waves; Wednesday, January 29, 2025.

Lightsails Could Reach Distant Star Systems; Fans Not Enough for Elderly in Heat Waves; Thursday, January 30, 2025. New Diagnostic Tool Will Help LIGO Hunt Gravitational Waves; Wednesday, January ...

Nature - Interstellar Vehicle Propelled By Terrestrial Laser Beam. Excellent summaries of the problem are given by Sheperd, L. A., Realities of Space Travel, (London ...

Researchers develop new design and fabrication method to make lightsails for interstellar travel. In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ...

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