Nature Communications – Pentagonal photonic crystal mirrors: scalable lightsails with enhanced acceleration via neural topology optimization The Starshot Breakthrough Initiative aims to send ...

But a new ultra-thin lightsail designed with AI could make it possible to reach the nearest star within 20 years. Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 probe was the first human-made object to leave our ...

Difference between Interference and Diffraction: This article covers an important topic from Class 12 Physics. As we all know, Physics is one of the toughest subjects in Class 12.

Laser diffraction is now widely used as standard method for routine particle size analysis in many different industries. The advantages of the technique make it an ideal alternative to many ...

LightSail 2's 3.5-year mission came to an end on Nov. 17 when the sunshine-riding craft burned up upon reentry to Earth's atmosphere.

LightSail may now be over, but it has opened the door to the use of solar sailing in space exploration. “It doesn’t fit every situation, but now it gives another arrow in the quiver of options ...

Science Space Private Space Flight The solar-powered LightSail 2 spacecraft took one last look at Earth before burning up After 18,000 trips around the world, the spacecraft ends its journey.

After three years circling the Earth, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 mission has come to an end following a fiery reentry. The satellite was an important tech demo for solar sailing, which ...

LightSail 2 spacecraft captured this image on June 11, 2022, which shows Madagascar and a portion of Mozambique. Image: The Planetary Society For the past three years, a tiny loaf-of-bread-sized ...

That would make such a lightsail more like an old-school parachute than a ship’s sail. Another consideration was making the lightsail extremely thin, but not too thin.