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Solar Sails

Author : Giovanni Vulpetti

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 41,87 MB

Release : 2009-03-05

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0387685006

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Solar sail technology is very close to becoming an engineering reality and it will soon be used in the exploration of the solar system and beyond. This fascinating book provides an accessible introduction to solar sails and details how they work and what they will be used for in the exploration of space. It also examines current plans for solar sails and how advanced technology, such as nanotechnology, might enhance their performance. Coverage shows how solar sail propulsion will make space exploration more affordable and demonstrates how access to destinations within (and beyond) the solar system will become within reach.



Solar Sailing

Author : Colin R. McInnes

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 41,21 MB

Release : 2013-11-27

Category : Science

ISBN : 1447139925

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Solar sailing - using the sun as a propellant - offers the possibility of low-cost long-distance missions that are impossible with conventional spacecraft. This first comprehensive book on this propulsion method provides a detailed account of solar sailing, at a high technical level, but in a way accessible to the scientifically informed layperson. Solar sail orbital dynamics and solar radiation pressure form the foundations of the book, but the engineering design of solar sails is also considered, along with potential mission applications.



Starsailing

Author : Louis Friedman

Publisher :

Page : 164 pages

File Size : 12,41 MB

Release : 1988-01-18

Category : Science

ISBN :

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Louis Friedman, Executive Director of the Planetary Society, presents the first comprehensive look at the science and history behind solar sailing and other designs for space travel. Serious science readers and space buffs alike will be fascinated by designs for the square sail, disk sail, and the heliogyro (which features flexible sails many kilometers long). Friedman compares solar sailing to other proposed propulsion sytems such as ion drives and laser propulsion, and takes an insider's look at the million-dollar JPL project of the late '70s, which was the first attempt at a working model. Illustrated.



Fast Solar Sailing

Author : Giovanni Vulpetti

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 428 pages

File Size : 32,61 MB

Release : 2012-08-10

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9400747772

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The range of solar sailing is very vast; it is a fully in-space means of propulsion that should allow us to accomplish various mission classes that are literally impossible using rocket propulsion, no matter if nuclear or electric. Fast and very fast solar sailings are special classes of sailcraft missions, initially developed only in the first half of the 1990s and still evolving, especially after the latest advances in nanotechnology. This book describes how to plan, compute and optimize the trajectories of sailcraft with speeds considerably higher than 100 km/s; such sailcraft would be able to explore the outer heliosphere, the near interstellar medium and the solar gravitational lens (550-800 astronomical units) in times significantly shorter than the span of an average career (~ 35 years), just to cite a few examples. The scientific interest in this type of exploration is huge.



Project Solar Sail

Author : David Brin

Publisher : Fantastic Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 35,89 MB

Release : 2024-05-28

Category : Science

ISBN : 9781515458180

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SAILING THE SEA OF OUTER SPACE! Arthur C. Clarke's "Sunjammer" updated an ancient dream, taking millions of readers on a sailing regatta in space. His stirring tale sparked a tech revolution that's coming true today-interplanetary vehicles, navigating across the Solar System on inexhaustible torrents of sunlight! Many others have since explored the coming, renewed age of sail. This intriguing anthology-updated for a new century-features both up-to-the-minute facts and future visions of solar sailing in a fascinating mix of stories, essays, and illustrations. Contributors range from JPL scientists to Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Kevin Anderson, and Ray Bradbury. From classics by Arthur C. Clarke, David Brin, Joe Clifford Faust, and Larry Niven, to the latest missions by NASA and the Planetary Society. Even interstellar possibilities-explored by Robert L. Forward & Joel Davis-are now carried even farther in reports by space pioneers like Les Johnson, Robert Staehle & Louis Friedman. This 21st Century Edition, specially crafted by David Brin and Stephen W. Potts, also includes a lost gem by Jack Vance.



Space Sailing

Author : Jerome L. Wright

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 27,82 MB

Release : 1992

Category : Science

ISBN : 9782881248429

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Wright was one of the first to introduce the concept of propulsion using light pressure. He reports on his continuing work, mostly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, for scientists, engineers, and space enthusiasts with little technical background. The first space sailors are probably in junior high now. Printed on acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



Solar Sails

Author : Holly Duhig

Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Page : 34 pages

File Size : 30,35 MB

Release : 2017-12-15

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1538213885

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Solar sails use the sun’s energy to fly spacecraft, or “flight by light.” It sounds like something out of a science fiction novel. In fact, it is, first being mentioned in Jules Verne’s From Earth to the Moon in 1865. It's been used as a way for characters to travel through space in many other books and movies, including Tron in 1985. Today, solar sails are a reality, and readers learn how their technology works as well as how successful trials with solar sail apparatuses have been. Could light energy be the best way to move through space in the future? Readers find out for themselves.



NASA Strategic Plan

Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Publisher :

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 29,52 MB

Release : 1994

Category : Outer space

ISBN :

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Advances in Solar Sailing

Author : Malcolm Macdonald

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 973 pages

File Size : 31,91 MB

Release : 2014-02-03

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 3642349072

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This book presents the best contributions of the the Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing Glasgow, 11 – 13 June 2013. It is a rapid snap-shot of the state-of-the art of solar sail technology in 2013 across the globe, capturing flight programs, technology development programs and new technology and application concepts. The book contains contributions from all of the leading figures in the field, including NASA, JAXA, ESA & DLR as well as university and industry experts. It therefore provides a unique reference point for the solar sail technology. The book also includes key contributions from the prospective users of solar sail technology, which will allow the technology to be considered by the user in this unique context.



Non-Rocket Space Launch and Flight

Author : Alexander Bolonkin

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 488 pages

File Size : 15,11 MB

Release : 2010-07-07

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9780080458755

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In recent years scientists have investigated a series of new methods for non-rocket space launch, which promise to revolutionize space launches and flight. Particularly in the current political climate new, cheaper, and more ‘fuel efficient’ methods are being investigated. Such new methods include the gas tube method, cable accelerators, tether launch systems, space elevators, solar and magnetic sails, circle launcher space keepers and more. The author of Non-Rocket Space Launch and Flight brings a vast amount of experience to the topic, having worked as a engineer, designer, project director and researcher at key institutes including NASA and the US Air Force. Explores all the new non-rocket space launch methods, and compares them with each other and traditional rockets Investigates the unifying principles of the different systems and shows how to select the best design suited to the mission Author brings together technical and theoretical expertise from both industry and academia