of two spacecraft — LightSail 1 and LightSail 2. LightSail 1 was an engineering demonstration mission designed to test its new sail deployment method in...

Solar sails (also known as lightsails, light sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight...

term lightsail may reference: a solar sail for spacecraft propulsion LightSail, a solar sail cubesat by The Planetary Society Amazon Lightsail, a computing...

after liftoff. LightSail was originally conceived as a series of three solar sail experiments but later shortened to two missions. LightSail 1 launched on...

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...

LightSail Energy (2008–2018) was an American compressed air energy storage technology startup. The company shut down in 2018, failing to produce a product...

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...

Components – Lightsail – Structure". Breakthrough Initiatives. Retrieved 15 April 2016. Patel, Neel V. (15 April 2016). "The Starshot Breakthrough Light Beam...

A diffractive solar sail, or diffractive lightsail, is a type of solar sail which relies on diffraction instead of reflection for its propulsion. Current...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

printing community, in the solar panel deployment mechanism of spacecraft LightSail-A, and as the heating coils of electronic cigarettes. The alloy price...

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...

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...

Planetary Society's LightSail 1 spacecraft, leading the mission design and system engineering of the solar sail demonstration project. LightSail 1 was launched...

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...

portal CubeSail (UltraSail) – US spacecraft IKAROS – First interplanetary solar sail spacecraft LightSail – LEO solar sailing demo project NanoSail-D2 – Satellite...

Black Sails is an American television drama series created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine for Starz that debuted on January 25, 2014. It was produced...

examples of solar sail-propelled spacecraft include IKAROS, Nanosail-D2, and LightSail. Near-Earth Asteroid Scout is a planned light sail-propelled mission...

2016 Starlight (interstellar probe) – UCSB study of fleet of small laser light sail interstellar probes Project Longshot – Spacecraft design Wenz, John (19...

(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...

A genoa sail is a type of large jib or staysail that extends past the mast and so overlaps the main sail when viewed from the side, sometimes eliminating...

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...

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...

"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...