This project explored using high-powered lasers to propel spacecraft, indicating ongoing interest in interstellar travel technology.
A project to fire tiny spacecraft with futuristic sails to our next-nearest star using a huge laser appears to have bitten the dust. But some scientists still see photonics as a path to interstellar travel.
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