News: 'Lightfoil' soars on a stream of photons

New Scientist has an article mentioning: "... technique, which takes advantage of the fact that light bends, or refracts, when moving from one medium to another, could be used to create solar-sail spacecraft that could steer using light itself. Photons create pressure when they bounce off objects. Solar sail prototypes are made highly reflective ..."

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