Forget the Millennium Falcon, I want to hitch a ride on a solar sailboat! #solarsailing #spacecats 🚀🐾🐈

https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/04/18/0638236/solar-sails-could-guide-interplanetary-travel-says-new-study?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Giving a talk on #SolarSailing at the Airdrie Astronomical Association tonight, come along if in the area!
https://www.airdrieobservatory.com/

Solar Sailing

"And so it's goodbye shiny material, and hello superconductor. A cable just a few meters long could, in theory, produce a field wide enough to deflect the Sun's charged wind on the scale of tens to hundreds of kilometers."

https://www.sciencealert.com/dynamic-soaring-trick-could-speed-spacecraft-across-interstellar-space

#science #space #spacetravel #sailing #solarsailing