Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun (Tars) for Interstellar Payload

48 virgildotcodes 4 7/26/2025, 10:39:19 PM arxiv.org ↗

Comments (4)

echelon · 7h ago
David Kipping of Cool Worlds Lab just uploaded a video about TARS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDM1COWJ2Hc

hersko · 3h ago
This is amazing. How have i never seen this channel before?
mperham · 3h ago
He’s an incredible scientist and educator. His back catalog of videos is well worth watching.
idiotsecant · 3h ago
He wrote the paper too :) Anyhow, I wonder if you can make a useful probe in the payload of a few grams? Maybe a swarm of them could act in concert to do useful things?