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This website contains information on solar sailing, an old idea but a new technology for moving around and doing things in space. Solar sails are very large and lightweight mirrors that are pushed through space by sunlight. Traditionally, spacecraft have used rockets or thrusters, which propel material in one direction to travel in the other. To learn more, take a look through the sections listed below.
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Sunlight pushes gently on spacecraft with large, lightweight, mirrored ''solar sails''. They enable travel throughout the solar system and beyond without rocket propellant. SolarSailWiki covers everything from the science of light pressure, how to sail, spacecraft flying now, to potential technologies and missions of the future.  
  
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Revision as of 14:02, 17 December 2010

Sunlight pushes gently on spacecraft with large, lightweight, mirrored solar sails. They enable travel throughout the solar system and beyond without rocket propellant. SolarSailWiki covers everything from the science of light pressure, how to sail, spacecraft flying now, to potential technologies and missions of the future.

If you would like to help SolarSailWiki, create an account and log in or use OpenID from another web service.

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