Wind Pellet Shear Sailing- Parts of System for Spacecraft to Reach 25% of Lightspeed
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#67BEY)
Jeff Greason describes how to go from 2% of lightspeed using dynamic solar wind soaring and then using pellets propelled from the sun to go from 2-6% of lightspeed using existing near term technology. At 6% of lightspeed the particles in the interstellar medium interact with the spacecraft like beyond nuclear fusion level energy. The ...