LightSail 2 just burned up in the atmosphere after a three-year mission.
will also use solar sailing. The ideal targets for these kinds of missions are within the inner solar system, as the craft stays close enough to the sun to get enough force from the sunlight to keep moving and to change an orbit.
There’s also plenty of room for improvement in solar sailing technologies. Researchers are eager to explore ideas such as the use of lasers to push at sails and the development of more sophisticated steering systems. Betts compared the LightSail program to learning to crawl, with the next wave of new technologies enabling the equivalent of walking.
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