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[[File:IKAROS solar sail.jpg|link=Category:Missions|Missions|thumb|left]]
..., lightweight, mirrored ''solar sails''. They enable travel throughout the solar system and beyond without rocket propellant. SolarSailWiki covers everythin
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This is a reference to Colin McInnes' <em>Solar Sailing</em><cite>McInnes1999</cite>.
[[File:IKAROS solar sail.jpg|link=Category:Missions|Missions|thumb|left]]
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Just as the internet is growing dramatically, so is interest in solar sails.
...ce+sail+OR+sails+OR+sailing%22&btnG=Google+Search "solar OR light OR space sail OR sails OR sailing"] on Google.
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[[File:IKAROS solar sail.jpg|thumb|IKAROS passing Venus]]
...past Venus on December 8, 2010, at a distance of 80,800km and continues to sail in orbit around the sun.
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...he [[wikipedia:Czech Republic|Czech Republic]], possibly featuring a solar sail.
317 B (42 words) - 11:02, 8 October 2010
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...cturing equipment. Their design was to be launched on a race against other sail designs by groups around the world in a race to the moon and mars.
*Website: http://sail.quarkweb.com/
920 B (150 words) - 12:15, 22 August 2012
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...lds-largest-solar-sail-sunjammer.html NASA to Launch World's Largest Solar Sail in 2014] by Leonard David of [http://space.com Space.com] goes in depth on
306 B (42 words) - 21:19, 25 February 2013
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... keep the vanes tight. It steers by tilting the vanes, which redirects the solar pressure.
[[Solar Blade]] was a project to design a nanosatellite heliogyro.
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It's been awhile since I posted on news in the world of solar sailing, so here's a list of stories that have come out in the past several
...13. This is one boom and one sail out of four that will make up the flight sail.
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...://www.planetary.org/ The Planetary Society's] [[LightSail|LightSail solar sail cubesat mission]] has posted some recent updates, including a major announc
... fly in May of 2015 in a LEO test before flying LightSail-B high enough to sail in April 2016.
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===What is a solar sail?===
===What pushes a solar sail if space is empty?===
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...ation-schedule-risk Space News reports on the cancellation of NASA's solar sail demonstration mission (Sunjammer)].
328 B (35 words) - 09:51, 19 October 2014
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...elopments in propulsion technology. There is extensive discussion of solar sail technology and missions, including the entire appendix.
529 B (68 words) - 15:13, 27 October 2014
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...upported reflector in low Earth orbit. There is some discussion of a solar sail spacecraft design, including a diagram.
857 B (117 words) - 17:39, 22 October 2014
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...ribing the sail can be found at [http://www.u3p.net U3P], under "The Solar Sail" and "Sails Models".
486 B (73 words) - 14:57, 27 October 2014
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...nologies solar sail program resulting in the ground deployment of two 20-m solar sails in a vacuum chamber. This work is precursory to actual flight valida
990 B (125 words) - 15:13, 27 October 2014
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...nterstellar laser sails. The sequels to Rocheworld also describe the solar sail.
509 B (68 words) - 15:15, 27 October 2014
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...ell as his own continuing work. The book discusses a rich variety of solar sail configurations, applications, and considerations to be taken in their desig
* Uses for a sail at every body in the solar system (and beyond)
1 KB (152 words) - 15:24, 27 October 2014
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...D was a [[wikipedia:NASA|NASA]] mission to deploy a 10 m<sup>2</sup> solar sail from a [[wikipedia:CubeSat|CubeSat]].
...a.gov/mission_pages/smallsats/fastsat/index.html FASTSAT] and deployed the sail on January 20th, 2010, at 10:00pm EST. NanoSail-D2 will remain visible in o
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...orecasting. The Planetary Society previously attempted to test fly a solar sail in the [[Cosmos 1]] mission.
* [http://sail.planetary.org/resources.html LightSail Academic Resources] - schematics, pa
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