Wow, I can be on Mars by next Monday!

Something called a ‘Photonic Laser Thruster’ has been developed by Young Bae, founder of the Bae Institute in Tustin, California. This can be a called a new type of propulsion engine that can get us to mars in less than a week. Whats even more amazing is that this was built with off-the-shelf components.

The demonstration produced a photon thrust of 35 µN and is scalable to achieve much greater thrust for future space missions, the institute said. Applications include highly precise satellite formation flying configurations for building large synthetic apertures in space for earth or space observation, precision contaminant-free spacecraft docking operations, and propelling spacecraft to unprecedented speeds — faster than 100 km/sec.

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