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How do you keep the lasers focussed on the sail?

Its a tiny target, very far away, with a constantly changing component of motion perpendicular to the line of sight because the laser platform itself is moving and accelerating in very complex ways. Perhaps this is addressed in the paper, but I must confess I got lost, I couldn't follow the math.

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