Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT)

Описание: A news clip from the Air Force Space Today on Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT), which is a pure photon rocket thruster with thrust amplification, and an interview with its inventor, Dr. Young K. Bae (Y.K. Bae Corp.) in Tustin, California, USA. The proof-of-concept of PLT demonstration was funded by NASA (NIAC), and its scaling-up and flight demonstration feasibility studies are currently supported by a NIAC Phase II program. Short terms applications, such as propellantless formation flying and stationkeeping of satellites that are presented in this video clip are currently pursued. Once the PLT development can follow a Moore's trend, it can be rapidly scaled up for much wider applications. The PLT developmental Moore law trend is believed to be possible because of the rapid development in Directed Energy technologies. With the rapid development of high power Thin Disk Laser technologies, unintentional demonstration of PLT scaling-up by a factor of ~1,000 (PLT thrust on the order of 30 mN) has been recently implicated. Further long term applications including interstellar travels with round-trip PLTs (the Photonic Railway) can be found and downloaded in www.ykbcorp.com.