https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-03-27/lightsail
Researchers develop new design and fabrication method to make lightsails for interstellar travel |...
In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective membrane designed to ride a column...
design and fabrication
https://atwater.caltech.edu/news/the-pressure-to-explore-caltech-researchers-take-first-experimental-steps-toward-lightsails-that-could-reach-distant-star-systems
The Pressure to Explore: Caltech Researchers Take First Experimental Steps Toward Lightsails that...
The Atwater group has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.