Bexhill Sailing Club's season got off to a sensational start with all four scheduled races sailed, thanks to the weather and ...
Eleven Lasers, three Laser Radials and two Dart 16 catamarans sailed the first races of the season at Hastings & St Leonards ...
On March 9, 2026, Velocitek named my friend Jay Leon, a longtime Seattle-based dinghy and big-boat sailor (and wing-foiling ...
Schooners have at least two masts, with the largest mast, or mainmast, located second from the bow. The majority of cruise sailboats in Camden Harbor are schooners originally designed as working boats ...
Solar sails may become one of the most revolutionary propulsion systems ever developed. Instead of fuel, these spacecraft use ...
Large Series C signals scale-up of China’s laser satellite communications sector Shanghai-based laser communications startup ...
The lasers alone would cost around one trillion dollars and the technology to create a nanocraft does not yet exist.
For decades, researchers have explored light sails as an alternative. These devices use radiation pressure—the force exerted when light reflects from a surface—to generate thrust. When driven by a ...
Researchers from Tuskegee University, Alabama, have developed a new photonic crystal (a kind of nanostructured material) light sail. This new sail could help solve problems of more conventional ...
Most space missions rely on chemical rockets for propulsion. Rockets must carry fuel, which increases spacecraft mass and limits their speed and travel distance. For decades, researchers have explored ...
Most space missions rely on chemical rockets for propulsion. Rockets must carry fuel, which increases spacecraft mass and limits their speed and travel distance. For decades, researchers have explored ...