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Re:Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing... by sandworm101 on Sunday June 23, 2019 @09:03PM (#20259748)
Not really. The differences in pressure would create spin, not push the craft in a different direction. You would need something else to push against, to "tack" against the solar wind, like how a sailboat's keel pushed against the water. Magnetic fields are an option, but those get less and less as you move away from the sun.

There are some complicated options involving mirrors that could move a craft in other directions, but they are radically difficult to manage. You send five mirrors with the craft as a formation, one on each side and one ahead. Then you can bounce the lasers off these mirrors to steer the ship. At the destination, the ahead mirror is used to slow the craft. All these mirrors would essentially be separate craft that would need to be themselves accelerated and managed.

Re:Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing... by hughes on Sunday June 23, 2019 @10:45PM (#20260096)
If you use a material on the back of the asteroid that had a higher albedo at more oblique angles, you could have a form of feedback.