Maximizing Swarms of Interstellar Laser Pushed Gram Spacecraft Missions
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6HN6W)
Tiny gram-scale interstellar probes pushed by laser light are likely to be the only technology capable of reaching another star this century and a NASA NIAC phase 1 study wants to work out the additional issues to coordinate several thousands one gram solar sails into a coordinated mission that can communicate back to Earth from ...