An Orbiting Laserport for Low Mass Sailcraft Propulsion

Grover A. Swartzlander

doi:10.1364/FIO.2016.FF1H.5

Frontiers in Optics 2016
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2016),
paper FF1H.5
•https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2016.FF1H.5

An Orbiting Laserport for Low Mass Sailcraft Propulsion

Grover A. Swartzlander

Frontiers in Optics 2016

Rochester, New York United States
17–21 October 2016
ISBN: 978-1-943580-19-4

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Abstract

Navigating a sailcraft by means of lasers on an orbiting “laserport” afford an opportunity to launch hundreds of miniaturized kilogram scale science packages to Mars and other Earth neighbors.

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