Sentences with word «lightsail»
«This finding prompted us to think about the possibility of stopping a high - velocity interstellar lightsail at Proxima Centauri and its planet,» says René Heller.
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This finding prompted us to think about the possibility of stopping a high - velocity interstellar lightsail at Proxima Centauri and its planet.
The system is reached by a lightsail beamed by a laser array, a concept not unfamiliar to today's Breakthrough Starshot (read the article by Avi Loeb), which envisions sending small sails by laser to Proxima Centauri.