Experiment to boost solar sail using microwave beam
Next year, scientists from California-based Microwave Sciences Inc. and the University of California at Irvine hope to be the first to push an orbiting solar sail using microwave energy beamed from the ground. The experiment is the brainchild of Microwave Sciences President James Benford, who has...
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