... on the spacecraft for long enough. This concept has been pursued by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies’ Dragonfly and Andromeda concepts, using lensing to focus the beam [2]. The main challenge here is to keep the laser...
..., Version 2.0 takes into consideration some important factors that were not included in the original Version 1.1. The Dragonfly mission, due to launch in 2026 and arrive in 2034, will fly to dozens of promising locations on Saturn’s icy moon...