Interstellar lightsails just got real: first practical materials made, 10,000x bigger & cheaper than before
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Pentagonal photonic crystal mirrors: scalable lightsails with enhanced acceleration via neural topology optimization
Nature Communications - Here the authors develop large-scale nanomaterials to improve the performances of laser propulsion using an easily scalable structure, thus bringing us closer to...
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