Wow. This is big.
Researchers have created tiny devices called metajets that can be lifted and steered in multiple directions using lasers.
For the first time, optical propulsion systems can achieve true 3D maneuvering.
If this scales, it could make missions to Alpha Centauri, about 4.37 light years away, feel far less impossible.
Concepts built on this approach suggest spacecraft could reach speeds of up to 20% of the speed of light (0.2c), cutting travel time to roughly 20 years.
In other words, this could open the door to fuel-free, laser driven spacecraft capable of reaching another star within a human lifetime.
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Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.