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Breakthrough Starshot's 100 Gigawatt laser array - what's the current thinking how this might work?
In the article Breakthrough Starshot tricks out massive telescope for planet hunting there is casual mention of a "phased array of lasers in the 100GW range" that will propel a gram scale spacecraft ...
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Are we actually that close to techniques of accelerating probes to speeds like a quarter $c$?
As recent research has been started by a team around Stephen Hawking under the name Breakthrough Starshot they are going for accelerating little probes up to 0.2~0.25$c$. There isn't that much ...
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