Related: LightSail 2 spacecraft ends its solar-sailing mission in a blaze of glory Although previous missions like the Planetary Society's notable LightSail 2 have already demonstrated that small ...

"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to direct spacecraft exploration." Scientists at the California Institute ...

The ACS3 mission builds on the work of the Planetary Society’s 2019 LightSail 2 orbital mission. LightSail 2’s goal was to show that light sail technology worked. The mission’s mylar solar ...

But a higher-energy version of this phenomenon could use a ground- or space-based laser beam to push a lightsail on a spacecraft in a more directed way. With the beam providing a source of ...