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NASA's solar sail successfully spreads its wings in space (www.space.com)

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[–] Passerby6497 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You're correct, the solar wind is like .5% the energy of the emitted photons and really begins to diminish after only 1.5AU, so they're even less effective in system without a laser array than I half remembered.