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Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails) are a form of spacecraft propulsion using the radiation pressure (also called solar pressure) of a combination of light and high speed ejected gasses from a star to push large ultra-thin mirrors to high speeds. Light sails could also be driven by energy beams that extend their range of operations, which, strictly, is beam sailing rather than solar sailing.
- Related: Yarkovsky effect, Poynting–Robertson effect, Nichols radiometer, IKAROS, Cosmos 1, Spacecraft propulsion, Beam-powered propulsion, Magnetic sail, Electric sail, Optical lift, Optical tweezers
| "Deflecting Asteroids," "Deflecting Asteroids," spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/deflecting-asteroids - Web |
| Planetary Society site for solar sailing projects Planetary Society site for solar sailing projects www.planetary.org/programs/projects/solar_sailing/ - Web |
| NASA Mission Site for NanoSail-D NASA Mission Site for NanoSail-D www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/smallsats/nanosaild.html - Web |
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| Far-out Pathways to Space: Solar Sails Far-out Pathways to Space: Solar Sails www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Solsail.htm - Web |
| Solar Sails Solar Sails www.solarsails.info - Web |
| U3P U3P www.u3p.net - Web |
| ISAS Deployed Solar Sail Film in Space ISAS Deployed Solar Sail Film in Space www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/snews/2004/0809.shtml - Web |
| Suggestion of a solar sail with roller reefing, hy... Suggestion of a solar sail with roller reefing, hybrid propulsion and a central docking and payload station. www.solar-thruster-sailor.info/figs/fig13.html - Web |
| Interview with NASA's JPL about solar sail technol... Interview with NASA's JPL about solar sail technology and missions www.andybrain.com/extras/solar-sail.htm - Web |
| Website with technical pdf-files about solar-saili... Website with technical pdf-files about solar-sailing, including NASA report and lectures at Aerospace Engineering School of Rome University nuke.giovannivulpetti.it/SolarSailing/tabid/56/Default.aspx - Web |
| Advanced Solar- and Laser-pushed Lightsail Concept... Advanced Solar- and Laser-pushed Lightsail Concepts 72.14.253.104/.../4Landis.pdf+physics+solar+sails+dopler+shift&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=41&gl=us - Web |
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| www.aibep.org: Official site of American Institute... www.aibep.org: Official site of American Institute of Beamed Energy Propulsion www.aibep.org - Web |
| Space Sailing Space Sailing www.spacesailing.com - Web |
