Photonic Propulsion or Laser Propulsion or Breakthrough Starshot

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By
Ashutosh Nandan
Manish Kumar Singh

2. Mars in three days
• Tip to Mars = 600 trips from Earth to
moon.
• Trip to mars = 73791+ trips from
Jammu to Kanyakumari.
• Fastest satellite ever sent is New
Horizon, will take 162 days, if we use
it to send to Mars.
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3. Chemical Propulsion
• NASA and other space
agencies uses chemical
propulsion.
• It requires burning of liquid
Hydrogen and Oxygen.
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4. A new technology : Solar Sail
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5. Design: Normal Wind Sail
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7. IKAROS
• Japanese Satellite
• Launched in 2010
• To measure thrust force by
the solar radiation pressure.
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8. Limitations of Solar Sails
• Light from the sun gets weaker the farther away it travels.
• So we need larger sails to move at higher speed, practically difficult to
achieve.
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9. DE-STAR
• Directed Energy System
for Targeting of Asteroids
and Exploration
• Used to deflect Asteroid
from it’s path coming
towards Earth.
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10. Wafer Sats : Miniature Spacecrafts
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11. Photonic Propulsion
• Concentrated laser beam
focused at the spacecraft.
• Using this technology we can
reach up to 25% of the speed of
light.
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12. Method 1 : Ground Lasers
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13. Method 2 : Space Lasers
• A Giant set of lasers , set up in
space.
• It takes power from Sun , using
solar panels and then transmit
that power towards space-craft
in form of laser.
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14. Interstellar Travel
• Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will take 40,000yr to reach proxima
centauri.
• Using this technology we can sent miniature satellite in just 17yr.
• One day this can also be used to send humans to other stars.
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15. Voyager 1 is just 0.05% of it’s Journey to
Alpha Centauri
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16. Breakthrough Starshot
• Yuri Miller – Billionaire ,
Investor.
• Stephen Hawking – One of the
Greatest Scientist of Modern
Time.
• Yuri Miller to Invest $ 100
Million.
• Facebook Founder Mark
Zuckerberg has also shown
interest.
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17. Sources
• D News
• Sci Show
• Science Channel
• Cold Fusion
• Wikipedia
• The Verge
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18. Thank You
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