It's possible, but very slow. The long term plan is powering such spacecraft from a solar array in the inner solar system using powerful lasers.
It's possible, but very slow. The long term plan is powering such spacecraft from a solar array in the inner solar system using powerful lasers.
Given my limited knowledge of space travel and astrophysics, how would it be possible for the sails to be able to be effective once it reaches Neptune and beyond? Isn't light much more limited further out in our solar system and the next nearest star light years away?