Science
Light-powered spacecraft bound for space’s no-man’s land – Inverse
Researchers have designed a tiny spacecraft that levitates using light and can fly where no spacecraft has before.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…
no, it’s a tiny, light-powered, levitating aircraft designed to fly in the “ignoro-sphere.”
We have been putting both craft and humans into space since the 1960s, but never has a spacecraft been able to sustain flight in a specific zone of Earth’s atmosphere called the mesosphere. Sandwiched between the airspace occupied by planes and the upper atmosphere occupied by satellites, the mesosphere is essentially a no man’s land in the liminal region between Earth and space….
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