Soh Kam Yung<p>Using sunlight to power up a flywheel in space to fling interstellar objects.</p><p>"Kipping began thinking about using sail materials to harvest the energy of solar photons, storing it in what could be considered a battery, and then using that stored energy, transformed into kinetic energy, to hurl a small spacecraft outwards."</p><p><a href="https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/08/01/a-space-catapult-with-interstellar-potential/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">centauri-dreams.org/2025/08/01</span><span class="invisible">/a-space-catapult-with-interstellar-potential/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Storage</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/SolarSail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarSail</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Concepts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Concepts</span></a></p>