• Rangelus@lemmy.nz
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    4 months ago

    Cheers mate. Neat stuff!

    I wonder how much force a sail of that size is expected to produce?

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      4 months ago

      I just did some quick maths (and assuming my formulas are correct), beaming at it with a 10 MW laser would cause it to speed up by 0.001 m/s² assuming the sail has 20 kg mass. So not very much, but also not nothing.