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Space plane, Planetary Society solar sail take off - CNN

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· A United Launch Alliance rocket launches with the Air Force's space plane and The Planetary Society's solar sail.

Sunjammer largest solar sail hopes to revolutionize near space travel...

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It might not get you all the way to Cardassia Prime, but NASA hopes its newly launched solar-sail Sunjammer program will lead to a new future in space travel

The Planetary Society to test two solar sail spacecraft - UPI.com

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Space research nonprofit The Planetary Society is preparing to launch LightSail in May, its tissue-box-sized sail-powered spacecraft.

Mystery interstellar asteroid Oumuamua 'could be gigantic alien solar...

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The first known interstellar object to travel through our solar system could be a gigantic alien solar sail sent to look for signs of life, according to a new...

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Home · FractalUK/KSPInterstellar Wiki · GitHub

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KSP Instellar Mod for Kerbal Space Program. Contribute to FractalUK/KSPInterstellar development by creating an account on GitHub.

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continuation of KSP Interstellar. Contribute to sswelm/KSP-Interstellar-Extended development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First-Ever Solar Sail | WIRED

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The unfurling of a Japanese solar sail, the first demonstration of a new space propulsion technology, went exactly according to plan. According toJAXA’s blog...

Near-Earth asteroid CubeSat goes full sail -- ScienceDaily

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NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite the size of a shoebox, designed to study asteroids close to Earth, recently performed a full-scale solar...

Are There Any Planned Missions Using Solar Sails?

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What's happening with solar sails? What projects are underway to use them for propulsion instead of your standard thruster? Let's have a look at some of the...

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Solar Sail | Moving you forward.

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Solar Sail is a web and mobile development shop specializing in turning your vision into reality. Our wide range of skills and experience is at your disposal to ...

- Solar Thruster Sailor (STS) - Solar Sail with thruster ring a...

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Solar Sail with hybrid propulsion, using light pressure and ion thruster to produce thrust. Spacecraft Building System to build large, light weight space structures ...

Parts of a Solar Sail

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Parts of a Solar Sail. In this lesson, you will learn the parts of a solar sail spacecraft that make it work. Skip intro. Parts of a Solar Sail. Challenges: Click on ...

Solar Sail Games – Independent Games Development

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Solar Sail Games is a super-shiny, independent game development nanostudio, currently based in thriving East London.

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Uncertainty management in solar sail attitude control

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Solar sails are emerging as a viable alternative to conventional forms of propulsion. Still at their infancy and relatively untested, many sources of uncertainty ...

Solar Sail-Powered Geostationary Satellites and Exploration Spacecraft

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The propulsive means of a solar sail is different than other historically-used propulsion systems in many ways. Unlike chemical, ion, and ...

How are solar sails possible? If photons have no mass, how can they...

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Ask the experts your physics and astronomy questions, read answer archive, and more.

ESA - Solar sails

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Page Animation of solar sail missions: standard, escape and helio-polar ... This means that a solar sail craft is not limited to. travelling away from the Sun, ...

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Interworld Transport - SailAway Project Page

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Overview Information Project Description SailAway is a project meant to provide a good solar sail structure and flight simulator that can accurately account for orbit ...

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Project Solar Sail by Arthur C. Clarke

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Project Solar Sail book. Read 4 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In 1964, Arthur C. Clarke introduced the concept of a flying vess...

Advances in Solar Sailing - Google Books

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This book presents the best contributions of the the Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing Glasgow, 11 – 13 June It is a rapid snap-shot of the...

Hypothetical Spacecraft and Interstellar Travel - Ezekiel Nygren -...

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Hypothetical Spacecraft and Interstellar Travel collects information about the latest and greatest hypothetical spacecraft.

Solar Sailing: Technology, Dynamics and Mission Applications - Colin...

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Solar sailing offers the possibility of low-cost long-distance missions, impossible for any other type of conventional spacecraft. The book provides a detailed...

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'It's Alive!' LightSail Solar Sail Reboots Itself After Orbital Glitch

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After eight days of orbital silence, the LightSail solar sail experiment has rebooted itself to recover from a software glitch.

Bill Nye celebrates solar sail deployment by LightSail spacecraft |...

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Bill Nye the science guy is a happy guy now – a solar sailing spacecraft launched by his non-profit organization has unfurled its solar sail after two...

Planetary Society to launch solar sail test flight in May | CBC News

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A tiny spacecraft pushed through space by ultra-thin

Calculating what it would take to park a solar sail at Alpha Centauri...

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Like gravitational boosts, but brakes, and using light.

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Design and Characterization of a Small-Scale Solar Sail Prototype by ...

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Solar sail performance is significantly affected by four main factors: sail surface/mass ratio; optical properties of the sail film; mechanical ...

Extension of Earth-Moon libration point orbits with solar sail...

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This paper presents families of libration point orbits in the Earth-Moon system that originate from complementing the classical circular restricted three-b

Electron Radiation Effects on Candidate Solar Sail Material :...

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Solar sailing is a unique form of propulsion where a spacecraft gains momentum from incident photons. Solar sails are not limited by reaction mass and...

solar sail - Wiktionary

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English[edit]. Noun[edit]. solar sail (plural solar sails). (astronautics) A sail-like structure on a spacecraft consisting of enormous ultrathin mirrors, propulsion ...

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Twitter Posts: Bobby Braun (Bobby_Braun)

RT @ac_charania: Pic of #NASA Les Johnson showing L'Garde Sunjammer solar sail under development under OCT funding #GLEX2012 http://t.co/thO4VdMV

Twitter Posts: Bobby Braun (Bobby_Braun)

RT @ac_charania: L'Garde funded by #NASA OCT to demo deep solar sail Sunjammer as Tech Demo mission in 2014, may have tip vane edges for control #GLEX2012

Twitter Posts: A.C. Charania (ac_charania)

Pic of #NASA Les Johnson showing L'Garde Sunjammer solar sail under development under OCT funding #GLEX2012 http://t.co/thO4VdMV

Twitter Posts: A.C. Charania (ac_charania)

L'Garde funded by #NASA OCT to demo deep solar sail Sunjammer as Tech Demo mission in 2014, may have tip vane edges for control #GLEX2012

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SOLAR SAIL | Nidhin T V | Pulse | LinkedIn

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Solar sail craft offer the possibility of low-cost operations combined with long operating lifetimes. Since they have few moving parts and use no ...

LightSail Solar Sail Spacecraft Goes …

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· A tiny cubesat has fallen silent in orbit for a second time, just two days before it was supposed to deploy its solar sail. The nonprofit ...

'Sunjammer,' the largest solar sail to date, will set out for space...

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In the vacuum of space, solar sails substitute radiation from the Sun for the wind used by earthbound sails. In 2014, NASA will launch Sunjammer, the largest...

Surfin' on Sunlight! Privately Funded Solar Sail to Launch by ...

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Both solar sail missions operate under the LightSail-1 designation. Made up of three miniature CubeSats, it will launch aboard SpaceX's Falcon ...

NASA's Sunjammer Solar Sail Mission Completes Key Test on Earth |...

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Scientists completed a key milestone for NASA's Sunjammer mission. The agency's spacecraft is slated to carry the largest solar solar sail ever launched.

LightSail Spacecraft Wakes Up Again, Deploys Solar Sail ...

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· LightSail launched May 20 on a mission to prove out some key components of solar-sailing technology — for example, attitude-control and sail-deployment ...

Bill Nye's Solar Sail Could Revolutionize Space Travel - EcoWatch

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The Planetary Society's solar sail is another step closer to spending its days in the sun. The world's largest space-interest nonprofit has unveiled the LightSail-2, the successor to the original LightSail CubeSat (or cube satellite used for space research) that successfully deployed its solar sails...

NASA to Launch World's Largest Solar Sail in Yahoo! News

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The largest solar sail ever constructed is headed for the launch pad in on a mission to demonstrate the value of "propellantless propulsion"— the act of using

World's Largest Solar Sail to Launch in November Yahoo ...

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A huge solar sail designed to demonstrate the viability and value of propellant-free propulsion is slated to blast into space in November 2014, mission

How Do Solar Sails Work? | Live Science

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While blasting rockets have provided the energy for most space travel so far, solar energy may provide the boost for spaceships in the future.

Carl Sagan's Solar Sail Is Ready For Its First Test Flight

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“There’s just a tremendously exciting prospect called solar sailing. [It] travels on the radiation and particles that come out of the sun, the wind from the...

China Reveals Solar Sail Plan To Prevent Apophis Hitting Earth in...

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A small shove could prevent a global catastrophe, according to Chinese plans

ESA Science & Technology - Analysis of a Solar Sail Mercury Sample...

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In addition, the ascending node of the solar sail parking orbit plane can be artificially forced to avoid out-of-plane manoeuvres during ascent ...

Group Hug: US "Solar Sail" Thin Film Solar Company Heads For Deep...

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The super thin film solar technology of Colorado-based Ascent Solar was nurtured along in part by US taxpayers through the Energy Department during the Obama Administration, and now the company has won a juicy slot in a high profile, “solar sail” deep space exploration program. As for America First, ...

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