A strong enough laser can burn things, clean things, pop things, and most impressively, move things. Yep. Watch this…
Aug 30 2016
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2,465. That’s the number of satellites that are whipping gracefully around the Earth as you read this.
Mar 13 2014
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In a series of upcoming technology demonstration missions, NASA is hoping to prove that giant solar sails are a…
Aug 19 2010
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Good news for the Little Japanese Solar Sail That Could, as the first images of the solar sail spread out in full…
Jun 10 2010
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The 20meter (diagonally) solar sail Ikaros we mentioned last month has been successfully unfurled in space by its…
Jul 24 2008
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