Counterintuitively, solar sails may be best suited for carrying spacecraft toward the Sun.
Credit: NASA
Sailing across the known universe on beams of light is about as romantic as the space industry gets. But while the whimsical dream of harnessing the Sun’s photons with solar sails has existed for more than 100 years, the concept has been limited mostly to science fiction by the level of engineers’...
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