TARS uses sunlight to spin up a pair of albedo-contrasting paddles, stores the energy as rotation, and then releases a pocket-size sail at about 12 km/s, enough to leave the solar system without lasers.
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Torqued Accelerator using Radiation from the Sun (TARS) for Interstellar Payloads
TARS uses sunlight to spin up a pair of albedo-contrasting paddles, stores the energy as rotation, and then releases a pocket-size sail at about 12 km/s, enough to leave the solar system without lasers.