MOSCOW, Jun 11< /strong> Scientists from the Kometa Special Purpose Space Systems Corporation have proposed sending a spacecraft to the nearest stars, which would be accelerated using a light sail under the influence of quantum accelerators launched into orbit on the same rocket along with the ship, follows from the documents in the Rospatent database .
«The invention relates to space technology and can be used to study the interstellar medium, as well as to deliver a spacecraft to the nearest star systems,» the material says.
According to the developers, such a spacecraft will be launched into near-Earth orbit «with a light sail and detachable modules with photodissociation quantum generators.» Then the upper stage must accelerate the spacecraft to the third cosmic velocity (necessary to leave the solar system, 16.65 kilometers per second). the solar wind, that is, the streams of ionized particles flowing from the solar corona, propagates at supersonic speed) and as it approaches interstellar space. At the same time, the ship must deploy its light sail.
After that, as the developers plan, modules with quantum generators will be sequentially separated and generate high-density laser radiation. When this radiation is applied to the solar sail, the device will receive the thrust necessary to fly to the stars closest to the solar system.