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Interstellar Travel with Sailing (Space) Ships

Interstellar Travel with Sailing (Space) Ships

by Laila Linke | Mar 25, 2020 | Daily Paper Summaries

Interstellar travel is difficult with traditional fuel-powered rockets. Today’s paper explores how we could instead use sailing space ships, propelled by photons and particles from astrophysical sources. Spoiler alert: Sailing ships could almost reach the speed of light!

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