You mean where its powered by a ground-based laser ?
I can't see how that would ever work out.... Too many things can happen to cause the laser to stop working, or the beam not contact the bottom of the craft...
I could just see it now... billion dollar space craft plummets to earth as bird crosses path of laser beam.
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You mean where its powered by a ground-based laser ?
I can't see how that would ever work out....
Too many things can happen to cause the laser
to stop working, or the beam not contact the bottom of the craft...
I could just see it now... billion dollar space craft plummets to earth as bird crosses path of laser beam.