Editing Lightcraft (section)

== Status ==

In 2008, the Office of Scientific and Technical Information of the US Department of Energy published an article on the official website in which its author William Larson<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Larson|first=C. William|date=2008-04-28|title=Perspective on One Decade of Laser Propulsion Research at Air Force Research Laboratory|url=https://www.osti.gov/biblio/21137140-perspective-one-decade-laser-propulsion-research-air-force-research-laboratory|journal=AIP Conference Proceedings|language=English|volume=997|issue=1|pages=84–96|doi=10.1063/1.2931934|bibcode=2008AIPC..997...84L|osti=21137140|issn=0094-243X|url-access=subscription}}</ref> talks about successfully completed research in this area.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kucina|first=Marina|date=2021-08-10|title=Who will lead the neuro revolution? Denis Banchenko on space and psychokinetic|url=https://samara.aif.ru/society/kto_vozglavit_neyrorevolyuciyu_denis_banchenko_o_kosmose_i_psihokinetike|access-date=2021-10-16|website=samara.aif.ru|language=ru}}</ref>

After Leik Myrabo's retirement from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2011, the homepage of his private company ''Lightcraft Technologies, Inc.'' (LTI) disappeared with a temporary notification explaining that a "site renovation" was ongoing. The old LTI logo and the small-scale model of the laser Lightcraft prototype of the 1990s were swapped for the occasion with a new logo and an artist image showing a full-scale lenticular microwave-powered Lightcraft with active peripheral MHD slipstream accelerators in orbit above the Earth.<ref name="LTI website">{{cite web
 |author=<!--Not stated-->
 |title=LTI website
 |website=Lightcraft Technologies, Inc.
 |url=http://www.lightcrafttechnologies.com
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309203240/http://www.lightcrafttechnologies.com/index.html
 |archive-date=2012-03-09
 |access-date=2020-02-27
 }}</ref> This plasma thruster image is shown on the cover of Myrabo's book about the Lightcraft.<ref name="Myrabo book" /> 

That presaged new developments but the site went eventually completely offline and never reappeared since. At that time though, laser aerospike and [[pulse detonation engine|PDE]] testing continued in the hypersonic [[wind tunnel]] of the ''Laboratory of Hypersonics and Aerothermodynamics'' at the [[Department of Aerospace Science and Technology]] of the [[Brazilian Air Force]] in [[São José dos Campos]].<ref name="Centauri Dreams 2009">{{cite web
 |last1=Gilster |first1=Paul
 |title=Lightcraft Experiments Continue
 |date=15 September 2009
 |website=Centauri Dreams
 |url=https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2009/09/15/lightcraft-experiments-continue/
}}</ref>