Solar Sailing: The Next Space Craze?

Author: Grossman, Joel

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 63, Number 4, 2000, pp. 18-29

Part of: Engineering and Science, Volume 63:4, 2000

Item Category: Feature Articles

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:63.4.Sailing

Abstract

Spacecraft that don't need rocket fuel riding laser beams to Alpha Centauri at one-tenth the speed of light. Sound nuts? Maybe not.

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