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Hmmm …. all very interesting there, Jolly Roger. I may be wrong, but I always thought that the solar wind of charged particles also exerted pressure, same as sunlight. And that a sail could be used for either/both. I know that when the Apollo astronauts visited the Moon on one of their missions, lunar dust was observed being kicked – up by the solar wind. Due to the Moon’s lack of atmosphere, it did not make dust clouds, but almost immediately settled back down again. But the magnetic bubble idea for utilizing solar wind as a possible supplement to an onboard fusion – powered thruster also sounds interesting. Both the thruster and the magnetic field bubble could perhaps all be powered by focus fusion.