NIAC funding for Photonic Laser Thruster technology
Submit on Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 22:58
Effective 1 October, Y.K. Bae Corporation has been awarded US$500,000 from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase 2 programme to further develop the company’s Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT) technology. This two year research and development phase will result in a scaled-up laboratory demonstration of PLT propulsion with space qualified lasers in a vacuum environment.
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