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In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...

In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...

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Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support ...

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This makes laser signals artificial and therefore a smoking ... “You can imagine a spacecraft made of a gigantic sail and [they] can push it using powerful lasers, and maybe we are, again ...