NASA Invests In New Solar Sail That Bends Light To Control Spacecrafts' Direction - IFLScience

NASA is exploring a new take on the idea of solar sails. By putting diffraction gratings into their sails, they hope to overcome the key drawback existing

NASA is exploring a new take on the idea of solar sails. By putting diffraction gratings into their sails, they hope to overcome the key drawback existing sails suffer, their lack of flexibility in t… [+3433 chars]

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