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Thread: Describe a beamed power solution. ( Digest Number 135)
# 15201 byCombs, Mike on June 27, 2001, 2:28 p.m.
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A reflector is going to act like a solar sail. Station keeping due
to momentum transfer will have to be calculated. The relay should
have the same problem. I don't know if the momentum transfer would
be signficant. I hope Criswell is talking to Robert Forward, who's something of an expert on pushing around light, wire meshes with microwave beams. (Or Leik Myrabo, who's done actual demos on this.)
Mike Combs