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🛰️ Laser Propulsion — Light-Sail Starshot Simulator

Interactive laser-propulsion simulator: a ground-based laser array pushes a light sail via radiation pressure (F = 2P/c), with beam-divergence loss over distance and a chemical-rocket comparison.

Space & Astronomy3DAdvanced60 FPS

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive Breakthrough-Starshot-style laser propulsion simulator: a ground phased-array laser pushes a gram-scale light sail via radiation pressure (F = 2P/c), with realistic beam-divergence loss over distance and a side-by-side chemical-rocket comparison.

Three.jsSpaceLaser PropulsionRadiation PressureBreakthrough Starshot

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install