of two spacecraft — LightSail 1 and LightSail 2. LightSail 1 was an engineering demonstration mission designed to test its new sail deployment method in...
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Solar sails (also known as lightsails, light sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight...
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LightSail Energy (2008–2018) was an American compressed air energy storage technology startup. The company shut down in 2018, failing to produce a product...
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term lightsail may reference: a solar sail for spacecraft propulsion LightSail, a solar sail cubesat by The Planetary Society Amazon Lightsail, a computing...
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after liftoff. LightSail was originally conceived as a series of three solar sail experiments but later shortened to two missions. LightSail 1 launched on...
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Danielle Fong (section LightSail Energy)
scientist and entrepreneur. She was the co-founder and chief scientist of LightSail Energy. Fong was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was raised in Dartmouth...
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Breakthrough Starshot (section Light sail)
Components – Lightsail – Structure". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 15 April 2016. Patel, Neel V. (15 April 2016). "The Starshot Breakthrough Light Beam...
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A diffractive solar sail, or diffractive lightsail, is a type of solar sail which relies on diffraction instead of reflection for its propulsion. Current...
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Sail rigs A sail is a tensile structure, which is made from fabric or other membrane materials, that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including...
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Rockwell Collins Deutschland. LightSail 2 was launched on 25 June 2019, focused around the concept of a solar sail. LightSail 2 uses a reaction wheel system...
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Laser propulsion (section Laser-pushed lightsail)
the rocket equation. A laser-pushed lightsail is a thin reflective sail similar to a solar sail, in which the sail is being pushed by a laser, rather than...
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Cosmos 1 (category Solar sail spacecraft)
vehicles led to a redesign similar to NanoSail-D, called LightSail-1, announced in November 2009. To test the solar sail concept, the Cosmos 1 project launched...
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CubeSat (section Solar sail)
solar sail as its main propulsion and stability in deep space, including the 3U NanoSail-D2 launched in 2010, and the LightSail-1 in May 2015. LightSail-2...
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printing community, in the solar panel deployment mechanism of spacecraft LightSail-A, and as the heating coils of electronic cigarettes. The alloy price...
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both stars. Lightsail has a nominal mass-to-surface ratio (σnom) of 8.6×10−4 gram m−2 for a nominal graphene-class sail. Area of the Lightsail, about 105...
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similar in format to both NanoSail-D2 and LightSail 2. The deployment of the sail was driven by a brushless DC motor. InflateSail included an avionics suite...
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the LightSail Spacecraft Is Revived, Deploying Its Solar Sail". The New York Times. "LightSail". LightSail. Retrieved 17 February 2016. "Private light sail...
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reported annually from reading programs and assessments. According to LightSail Education, about half of U.S. students in grades 3-12 receive a Lexile...
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Hypothetical technology (section Light sail)
surface. A light sail is a proposed propulsion system that uses the momentum transferred to a sail by light impinging on it. A light sail could use sunlight...
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private spaceflights beyond Earth orbit include solar sailing prototypes (LightSail-3). During the principal period of spaceflight in the mid-twentieth century...
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mission using a laser driven light sail propulsion system to send the spaceship and a crew of 20 on a one-way journey of 5.9 light-years (ca. 34 trillion miles;...
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has been accelerated to high speed by some other means such as laser lightsail Inward-spiralling missions to study the Sun at a closer distance Two-way...
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directly "pushing" on the sail. One example is using a solar sail to reflect a laser beam. This concept, called a laser-pushed lightsail, was initially proposed...
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"Full Sail", a song by the Beach Boys from L.A. (Light Album), 1979 Full Sail (horse) (1934–1953), a British Thoroughbred racehorse Full Sail Brewing...
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portal CubeSail (UltraSail) – US spacecraft IKAROS – First interplanetary solar sail spacecraft LightSail – LEO solar sailing demo project NanoSail-D2 – Satellite...
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2016 Starlight (interstellar probe) – UCSB study of fleet of small laser light sail interstellar probes Project Longshot – Spacecraft design Wenz, John (19...
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program, to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of small centimeter-sized light sail spacecraft named StarChip, capable of making the journey to Alpha Centauri...
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vessels Sail components include the features that define a sail's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may...
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A shade sail − or somewhat more precise a textile sunshade sail or a textile sun protection sail − is a device to create outdoor shade based on the textile...
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(born 1991) Danielle Fong (born 1987), co-founder and chief scientist of LightSail Energy Evan Fong (born 1992) Fong Chi Chung (born 1968) Fong Yee Pui (born...
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