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A Beihang preprint sends a diffractive solar sail backward around the sun to hit asteroids head-on
Researchers at Beihang University simulated a sail that steers by diffracting sunlight sideways, and report that a head-on impact at about 100 km/s would deliver 230 times DART's energy per kilogram of impactor.
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