Slava Turyshev

[3] From January 2015 to December 2016, he was the leading researcher, then engineer of the Laboratory of Laser Interferometric Measurements of Moscow State University.

[4] He is interested in: He was the principal investigator of the LATOR mission aimed at testing parameterized post-Newtonian formalism with high accuracy.

In 2020, Turyshev presented his idea of Direct Multi-pixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravitational Lens Mission.

[6] Turyshev proposes to use realistic-sized solar sails (~16 vanes of 10^3 m^2) to achieve the needed high velocity at perihelion (~150 km/sec), reaching 547 AU in 17 years.

[7] In 2023, a team of scientists led by Turychev proposed the Sundiver concept, whereby a solar sail craft can serve as a modular platform for various instruments and missions, including rendezvous with other Sundivers for resupply, in a variety of different self-sustaining orbits reaching velocities of ~5-10 AU/yr.