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An artist's illustration of a light-sail powered by a radio beam generated on the surface of a planet. The leakage from such beams as they sweep across the sky would appear as Fast Radio Bursts , similar to the new population of sources that was discovered recently at cosmological distances. Credit: M. Weiss/CfA
. However, Higgins and his associates from McGill were interested in how the same technology could enable rapid transit missions to Mars in just 45 days and throughout the Solar System. This method, they argued, could also validate the technologies involved and act as a stepping stone toward interstellar missions.
“Obviously, we don’t have a 100 MW laser at McGill, but we now have a 3-kilowatt laser set-up in the lab and are studying how the laser would couple its energy to a propellant . The AIAA paper reports on the design, construction, and ‘shake-down’ of our 3-kW laser facility.”
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