Kavli Affiliate: Simon Groblacher | First 5 Authors: Jin Chang, Wenye Ji, Xiong Yao, Arnold J. van Run, Simon Gröblacher | Summary: Highly ambitious initiatives aspire to propel a miniature spacecraft to a neighboring star within a human generation, leveraging the radiation pressure of lasers for propulsion. One of the main challenges to achieving this […]
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