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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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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radiation pressure, which aids in the calculation of a force on a solar sail. Solar irradiance is measured by satellites above Earth's atmosphere, and...
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LightSail is a project to demonstrate controlled solar sailing within low Earth orbit using a CubeSat. The project was developed by The Planetary Society...
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Radiation pressure (redirect from Solar radiation pressure)
materials for optimizing a solar sail, for instance. Momentary or hours long solar pressures can indeed escalate due to release of solar flares and coronal mass...
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The fission sail is a type of spacecraft propulsion proposed by Robert Forward that uses fission fragments to propel a large solar sail-like craft. It...
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electric sail (also known as an electric solar wind sail or an E-sail) is a proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using the dynamic pressure of the solar wind...
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allocated funding. A preliminary mission outline suggests the use of solar sails propelled by high energy lasers to increase propulsion. The proposed...
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CubeSat (section Solar sail)
for a given solar sail's area. However, solar sails still need to be quite large compared to the satellite, which means useful solar sails must be deployed...
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Spacecraft propulsion (category Discovery and exploration of the Solar System)
the solar sail concept, NanoSail-D became the first such powered satellite to orbit Earth. As of August 2017, NASA confirmed the Sunjammer solar sail project...
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employs a solar sail to continuously modify its orbit in ways that gravity alone would not allow. Typically, a statite would use the solar sail to "hover"...
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Sunjammer (section Planned 2014 solar sail mission)
between solar sail spacecraft. John Merton, a spaceship designer, develops and promotes a lightweight spacecraft with a large area of solar sail, to be...
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magnetic sail is a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion where an onboard magnetic field source interacts with a plasma wind (e.g., the solar wind) to...
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JAXA (section Solar sail research)
February 2006. However the solar sail did not deploy fully. ISAS tested a solar sail again as a sub payload of the SOLAR-B launch at 23 September 2006...
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IKAROS (category Solar sail spacecraft)
and control of a large, thin solar sail membrane (grey-blue areas numbered 3) Thin-film solar cells integrated into the sail to power the payload (black...
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TRON: Solar Sailer is a game that was released by Mattel for Intellivision in 1982. The game is one of four released for the console that required the...
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List of Star Wars spacecraft (redirect from Geonosian solar sailer)
appears multiple times in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, is equipped with a solar sail which was originally part of the concept for the Naboo royal starship...
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Starwisp (redirect from Microwave sail)
the late Robert L. Forward. It is propelled by a microwave sail, similar to a solar sail in concept, but powered by microwaves from a human-made source...
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Breakthrough Starshot (section Light sail)
camera, computer, communications laser, a nuclear power source, and the solar sail must be miniaturized to fit within a mass limit. All components must be...
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feasibility of solar sailing, but the rocket failed shortly after liftoff. LightSail was originally conceived as a series of three solar sail experiments...
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Interstellar Probe (1999) (section Solar sail)
400-meter-diameter solar sail as a propulsion method (1 g/m2) combined with a 0.25 AU flyby of the Sun to achieve higher solar light pressure, after which the sail is...
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Solar cooker Solar dryer Solar-powered fan Solar furnace Solar inverter Solar keyboard Solar lamp Solar pond Solar road stud Solar street light Solar...
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Sonic Prime Sale (disambiguation) Solar sail All pages with titles beginning with Sail All pages with titles containing Sail This disambiguation page lists...
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OKEANOS (redirect from Oversize Kite-craft for Exploration and Astronautics in the Outer Solar System)
Outer Solar system) was a proposed mission concept to Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter's orbit, using a hybrid solar sail for propulsion; the sail was...
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Syromyatnikov, who served as the project's lead engineer. Originally devised as a solar sail, Syromyatnikov pivoted to using the proposed hardware as a space mirror...
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sail Heliospheric current sheet Helium focusing cone Interplanetary medium Magnetic sail Parker Solar Probe Plasmasphere Solar cycle Solar sail Solar...
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PET film. They can be used as components in adaptive optics systems. Solar sail Séchaud, Marc (1999), "Wave-front compensation devices", in Roddier, François...
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Solar One is a proposed spacecraft that would combine beamed-powered propulsion, electromagnetic propulsion, and nuclear propulsion. The spacecraft would...
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Cosmos 1 (category Solar sail spacecraft)
Studios and The Planetary Society to test a solar sail in space. As part of the project, an uncrewed solar-sail spacecraft named Cosmos 1 was launched into...
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ʻOumuamua (redirect from 1I (small solar system body))
its way out of the Solar System, at speeds of 63 km/s (39 mi/s). More advanced options of using solar, laser electric, and laser sail propulsion, based...
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