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Caltech’s Lightsail Experiment Brings Interstellar Travel Closer to Reality

A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology devised a means of measuring the thin membranes of a lightsail, helping prove out a futuristic travel concept first imagined by Johannes Kepler over 400 years ago. The team’s research, published this month in Nature Photonics, describes a miniature lightsail in a laboratory setting. The […]

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