08 May 2019
Tests start on first design of 'wafer scale' spacecraft
... wafercraft includes integrated optical communications, optical systems, sensors and a camera and when combined with directed energy propulsion, it would be capable of speeds around 20 percent of the speed of light, if not more. With a large enough...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... travel is to keep the fuel on Earth and ‘beam’ the energy to a spacecraft. This directed-energy propulsion relies on the fact that an electromagnetic photon carries momentum and energy, and the fact that when the photon is either reflected...
