Stabilization and steering of a parabolic laser thermal thruster with an ignition device

Propulsion to Orbit by Ground-Based Lasers

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Ablative Laser Propulsion: An Old Concept Revisited

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Lightcraft experiments in Germany

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Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics +17

Comparative lightcraft impulse measurements

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Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics +13