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IKAROS spaceprobe with solar sail in flight (artist's depiction) showing a typical square sail configuration

Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails) are a form of spacecraft propulsion using the radiation pressure (also called solar pressure) of a combination of light and high speed ejected gasses from a star to push large ultra-thin mirrors to high speeds. Light sails could also be driven by energy beams that extend their range of operations, which, strictly, is beam sailing rather than solar sailing.

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