Making Affordable Laser Pushed Sails With AI Optimization

There has been huge progress on laser pushed sails. Laser pushed sails appear to be a path to sending probes up to 20% of the speed of light when we can make 1 gram sails that are one to two meters on a side.

There is still work needed to make the sail area about one thousand times larger for interstellar missions.

Researchers are now progressing to hold …