Proof of concept lightsail material suitable for interstellar mission
Proposals using large light sails like the Starshot Breakthrough, require mirrors with lateral sizes of 4 × 4 m2, thicknesses of 0.05 lambda, reflectivities of 90 %, ppm level optical absorption and a...
View ArticleDirected Energy Propulsion has made a lot of experimental progress
Philip Lubin, University of California, Santa Barbara, Directed Energy for Interstellar Study Starting at 26 minutes of this video. They are making progress with laser locking over kilometer distances....
View ArticleExperimental Results for Laser Pushed Propulsion
Philip Lubin and his team are continuing to make progress toward laser pushed sails. This is a way to achieve significant fractions of the speed of light for interstellar missions and a way to beam...
View ArticleExtracting Energy from Solar Winds Via Plasma Magnetic Sail to Get Near...
How do we extract energy from space around a spacecraft? If there are differences in the speed of the solar wind or differences in flows of particles around a spacecraft or where a spacecraft is...
View ArticleGalileo Project Recovers Spherules from Interstellar Meteor – Possibile...
Physicist Avi Loeb and his team have used NASA data of meteor impacts to identify interstellar meteors. The NASA data was so good they were able to pinpoint a candidate meteor that hit near Australia....
View ArticleToward 100,000 Times More Efficient Gigawatt Interstellar Propulsion Beamed...
Jeffrey Gleason describes how to increase the space propulsion beaming range of an ion beam from 0.1 AU to 1000 AU by pinching the ion beam. He also describes getting 50 kilowatts per square meter of...
View ArticleBreaking Out of the Solar System With an Interstellar Fleet
There are many people who have the opinion about interstellar travel being impossible. They are looking at our current immature economy and immature space capability. They then extrapolate about some...
View ArticleMaximizing Swarms of Interstellar Laser Pushed Gram Spacecraft Missions
Tiny gram-scale interstellar probes pushed by laser light are likely to be the only technology capable of reaching another star this century and a NASA NIAC phase 1 study wants to work out the...
View ArticleNextbigfuture Discusses Laser Pushed Sails
Nextbigfuture has a weekly video review of the big stories in science and technology. The later part of the video discusses laser pushed sails for fast missions around the solar system and then...
View ArticleHere is How IVO Quantized Inertia Drive Cubesat Works and a Follow Up...
Background: According to standard physics we cannot travel to the stars in a human lifetime because we need impractical amounts of fuel to get close to light speed. However, a new theory of inertia has...
View ArticleIVO Tests Adding the Thrust From Multiple Quantum Drives
Barry-1 has 2 Quantum Drives: QD1 (Blue Arrow, internal) & QD1-TC (Green Arrow). Both are designed to produce thrust in the same direction (Red Arrow). QD1-TC is expected to produce about 2x the...
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