'Space sails' based on photonic materials funded by NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts programme
A researcher from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has developed some advanced photonic materials that could be used as spacecraft sails, enabling a craft to be propelled by the sun. ...
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