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Named after Soviet engineer Dr. Leonid Shkadov, who first proposed it.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shkadov thruster
Today it means: A hypothetical megastructure consisting of a gargantuan statite used to redirect the radiation pressure of a star, generating a net thrust which slowly accelerates the whole system in the direction of the statite. Full definition →