We hope LightSail 2 will send back beautiful pictures. And we believe it will fundamentally advance the technology of spaceflight. Solar sailing is elegant not only in concept but also in its ...

Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for ...

The LightSail 2 satellite, launched in June, may have proved how to lighten the load. It’s currently flying free using only light as fuel. When photons from sunlight hit its silvery sail ...

Scientists are developing miniature lightsails that could travel at unprecedented speeds, potentially enabling interstellar ...

The ultimate goal of the lightsail project is to drive a freely accelerating lightsail that is 10 square meters in area and 100 nm or less in thickness. In this first experimental step, the Caltech ...