Experimenting on an Interstellar Sail
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Experimenting on an Interstellar Sail
The idea of beaming a propulsive force to a sail in space is now sixty years old, if we take Robert Forward’s first publications on it into account. The gigantic mass ratios necessary to build a rocket that could reach interstellar distances were the driver of Forward’s imagination, as he realized in 1962 that the only way to make an interstellar spacecraft was to separate the energy source and the reaction mass from the vehicle. Robert Bussard k
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