KINGSTON, R.I., Oct. 13 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news release:
KINGSTON, R.I. - Oct. 13, 2026 - As spaceflight continues to evolve, direct energy propulsion for interstellar exploration-or DEEP-IN, which uses photonic laser propulsion to propel spacecrafts into outer space-could be a gamechanger for humans to travel into deep space.
Philip Lubin, a physics professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, will explain how transformative DEEP-IN can be for space travel in his University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 20. Lubin's talk, titled "Directed Energy for Relativistic Propulsion," will discuss paths to relativistic flight using DEEP-IN, and its transformative implicati...