Lasers could nudge space debris aside

The momentum of light could be enough to avert collisions in space.

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Mason, J., Stupl, J., Marshall, W. & Levit, C. Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1690 (2011).

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Jon Cartwright
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Cartwright, J. Lasers could nudge space debris aside. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.161