How Light Propulsion Will Work - HowStuffWorks
2024年4月16日 — Light propulsion for spacecraft, leveraging laser beams to propel vehicles into space, promises minimal onboard propellant needs and no pollution, potentially revolutionizing …
Beam-powered propulsion - Wikipedia
Beam-powered propulsion, also known as directed energy propulsion, is a class of aircraft or spacecraft propulsion that uses energy beamed to the spacecraft from a remote power plant to …
Riding the beam to Mars and the stars: Laser space propulsion
2024年11月1日 — The idea was to aim a powerful 10-km-square ground-based laser array at light sails in high Earth orbit to propel tiny “StarChip” spacecraft to relativistic speeds and into …
Can we use powerful lights to propel spacecraft at the speed of light …
2019年10月28日 — Why don't we use Newton's Third Law of Motion (every action has an equal and opposite reaction) to help us travel through space at the speed of light? Simply use …
Prospects and physical mechanisms for photonic space propulsion - Nature
2018年10月26日 — We highlight several light-enabled mechanisms of thrust generation via photon–matter interactions such as photonic pressure and ablation, optical gradient forces, …
LightSail, a Planetary Society solar sail spacecraft
2019年6月25日 — Our LightSail 2 spacecraft was in space from June 2019 to November 2022 and successfully used sunlight alone to change its orbit around Earth. LightSail® is a crowdfunded …
Reaching for the stars: How lasers could propel spacecraft to ...
2016年3月30日 — Equipped with a laser sail just under one meter (3 ft) in diameter, such a spacecraft could be propelled by a 70 GW laser array to about 26 percent the speed of light in …
Dynamically stable radiation pressure propulsion of flexible
2024年5月17日 — Meter-scale, submicron-thick lightsail spacecraft, propelled to relativistic velocities via photon pressure using high-power density laser radiation, offer a potentially new …
Self-Guided Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar …
2019年4月10日 — We propose an innovative beamed propulsion architecture that would enable interstellar missions to Proxima Centauri b at nearly 10% the speed of light. This architecture …
We highlight several light-enabled mechanisms of thrust generation via photon-matter interactions such as photonic pressure and ablation, optical gradient forces, light-induced electron …